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Review
. 2006;10(5):167.
doi: 10.1186/cc5049.

Recently published papers: pneumonia, hypothermia and the elderly

Christopher Bouch  1 , Gareth Williams
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Review

Recently published papers: pneumonia, hypothermia and the elderly

Christopher Bouch et al. Crit Care. 2006.

Abstract

Pneumonia (hospital-acquired and community-acquired) is commonly encountered in intensive care. Several papers recently published on this subject have shed more light on different aspects of this important topic. Hypothermia has been shown to improve post-arrest outcome, but how often do we use it? And finally, several papers have recently appeared in the journals related to the admission of the elderly to the critical care area and their outcome.

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