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01-08-2009 | Editorial

The FINNALI study on acute respiratory failure: not the final cut

Author: Elisa Estenssoro

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 8/2009

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The authors of the FINNALI study, published in this issue of Intensive Care Medicine [1], are to be congratulated for a huge task: to describe the incidence and other epidemiological features of acute respiratory failure (ARF) in a whole country, Finland. As ARF is a frequent cause of admission to the ICU, it is surprising how few studies aim at characterising it [2‐5]. Researchers have mainly focussed on the most severe forms of ARF: acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) [6]. …

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Title: The FINNALI study on acute respiratory failure: not the final cut
Author: Elisa Estenssoro
Publication date: 01-08-2009
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 8/2009
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-009-1518-0

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