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Review
. 2006 Feb;10(1):116.
doi: 10.1186/cc4820.

Recently published papers: pulmonary care, pandemics, and eugenics in surviving sepsis?

Christopher Bouch  1 , Gareth Williams
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Review

Recently published papers: pulmonary care, pandemics, and eugenics in surviving sepsis?

Christopher Bouch et al. Crit Care. 2006 Feb.

Abstract

Respiratory failure is one of the leading admission diagnoses on the critical care unit, and the journals have reflected this over the past few months. An understanding of the aetiology of pulmonary sepsis is important but your choice of ventilator gas humidification system is not. There are prophecies of more pandemics, but panic is futile because survival is all down to your genes.

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