Extracorporeal Lung Support in Trauma Patients

• 11/03/2016

The rationale, indications and challenges of extracorporeal lung assist in trauma patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome is given on  the basis of clinical and scientific experience. Traumatic lung injury is often present in multiple trauma with a wide spectrum of severity. In a large cohort study, patients with multiple trauma were reported to suffer from acute hypoxaemia...