Outcome of older patients receiving mechanical ventilation
- 28 February 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Intensive Care Medicine
- Vol. 30 (4) , 639-646
Abstract
To determine the threshold of age that best discriminates the survival of mechanically ventilated patients and to estimate the outcome of mechanically ventilated older patients.Keywords
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