Noninvasive ventilatory management of the acute respiratory distress syndrome: a new era or just another tease!

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;; Department of Respiratory Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² CIBER de Enfermedades respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain;; Multidisciplinary Organ Dysfunction Evaluation Research Network, Hospital Universitario Dr. Negrin, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

Editorial

Robert M Kacmarek et al. Ann Transl Med. 2016 Sep.

. 2016 Sep;4(18):350.

doi: 10.21037/atm.2016.08.38.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;; Department of Respiratory Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² CIBER de Enfermedades respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain;; Multidisciplinary Organ Dysfunction Evaluation Research Network, Hospital Universitario Dr. Negrin, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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