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The baby lung and the COVID-19 era

Authors: Luciano Gattinoni, Konrad Meissner, John J. Marini

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 7/2020

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The concept of the baby lung was born in 1987 [1] when quantitative CT scan analysis demonstrated that, in severe ARDS, the amount of the ventilatable lung tissue of an adult was similar to that of a 6-year-old healthy child. We called it a “baby lung.” …

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Title: The baby lung and the COVID-19 era
Authors: Luciano Gattinoni
Konrad Meissner
John J. Marini
Publication date: 01-07-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Hypoxemia
Acute Respiratory Distress-Syndrome
COVID-19
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 7/2020
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-06103-5

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