Measuring extravascular lung water: animals and humans are not the same

Critical Care
Volume 10
Issue 4

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Mikhail Y Kirov¹ , Vsevolod V Kuzkov¹ , Enrique Fernandez-Mondejar² and Lars J Bjertnaes³

¹Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Northern State Medical University, Troitsky prospect 51, Arkhangelsk 163000, Russia

²Intensive Care Unit, Hospital University Virgen de las Nieves, Servicio de Cuidados y Urgencias, Carretera de Jaén s/n 18013 Granada, Spain

³Department of Anesthesiology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University and University Hospital of Tromsø, N-9038 Tromsø, Norway

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Critical Care 2006, 10:415doi:10.1186/cc4989


Published:	24 July 2006

The evolution of extravascular lung water (EVLW) monitoring is an important step forward in the hemodynamic assessment of critically ill patients.