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Clinical Analysis of Patients Requiring Long-term Mechanical Ventilation of Over Three Months: Ventilator-associated Pneumonia as a Primary Complication
2003
Internal medicine (Tokyo. 1992)
Objective To evaluate the clinical features, etiology, and prognosis of patients whorequired long-term mechanical ventilation (LMV)of over three months for respiratory failure following underlying disease, and observation of their clinical course until death. Patients Thirty-seven patients (27 males, 10 females) treated in the internal and medical intensive care unit at Kawasaki Medical School Kawasaki Hospital over the 16-year period from April 1985 to March 2001 were retrospectively studied.
doi:10.2169/internalmedicine.42.25
fatcat:f27yxdknqbhkpeqfiavtwv5ew4