Resuscitation
Volume 80, Issue 5 , Pages 535-539 , May 2009

Extracorporeal life support in post-traumatic respiratory distress patients

  • Yao-Kuang Huang

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiac Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taiwan
    • Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Kou-Sheng Liu

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiac Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ming-Shian Lu

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiac Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Meng-Yu Wu

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiac Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Feng-Chun Tsai

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiac Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taiwan
    • Department of Respiratory Care, Chang Gung Institute of Technology, Chia-Yi, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Division of Cardiac Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Center, 199 Tun-Hwa N Rd, Taipei 105, Taiwan. Tel.: +886 3 3281200x2118; fax: +886 3 3285818.
    • ,
  • Pyng Jing Lin

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiac Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taiwan

Received 29 August 2008 ,Revised 10 December 2008 ,Accepted 9 February 2009.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the summary of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.02.016.

PII: S0300-9572(09)00110-5

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.02.016

Resuscitation
Volume 80, Issue 5 , Pages 535-539 , May 2009

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