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Year in review 2008: Critical Care - respirology

Haibo Zhang1,2,3,4 email and Arthur S Slutsky1,2,5 email

1Keenan Research Centre at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St Michael's Hospital, Bond Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

2Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, Canada

3Department of Anaesthesia, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, Canada

4Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, Canada

5King Saud University, BOX 2454, Riyadh 11451, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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Critical Care 2009, 13:225doi:10.1186/cc7947

Published: 21 October 2009

Abstract

Original research contributions published in Critical Care in 2008 in the fields of respirology and critical care medicine are summarized. Eighteen articles were grouped into the following categories: acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome, mechanical ventilation, mechanisms of ventilator-induced lung injury, and tracheotomy decannulation and non-invasive ventilation.


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