Difficult to wean chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients: avoid heat and moisture exchangers?

Review

Gilles Hilbert. Crit Care Med. 2003 May.

. 2003 May;31(5):1580-1.

doi: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000063283.97796.1E.

No abstract available

Comment on

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