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Published in: Critical Care 1/2006

01-02-2006 | Commentary

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

Authors: Christopher Bouch, Gareth Williams

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 1/2006

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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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Metadata
Title
Recently published papers: pulmonary care, pandemics, and eugenics in surviving sepsis?
Authors
Christopher Bouch
Gareth Williams
Publication date
01-02-2006
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 1/2006
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc4820

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