Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 337-342, October 2005

Influence of Positive End-Expiratory Pressure Ventilation on Survival During Severe Hemorrhagic Shock

From the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (Krismer, Wenzel, Lindner, Haslinger, Oroszy, Stadlbauer, Hörmann), the Department of Surgery (Königsrainer), Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; and the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA (Boville)

Received 7 May 2004; received in revised form 13 August 2004 and 18 January 2005; accepted 9 February 2005. published online 03 May 2005.

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 Supervising editor: Stephen R. Thom, MD, PhDAuthor contributions: ACK, VW, and KHL conceived the study, designed the trial, and obtained research funding. AK and CH supervised the conduct of the trial and data collection. CWH, SO, and BB performed the experiments and collected the data. KHS provided statistical advice on study design and analyzed the data. ACK and VW drafted the manuscript, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. ACK takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: Supported by the Austrian National Bank Grant 10618, Vienna, Austria; and the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.Presented at the 76th Scientific Sessions 2003 of the American Heart Association, November 2003, Orlando, FL.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(05)00269-6

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.02.022

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 337-342, October 2005

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