Liquid Ventilation
Mammals have lungs to breathe air and they have no gills to breath liquids. When the surface tension at the air-liquid interface of the lung increases, as in acute lung injury, scientists started to think about filling the lung with fluid instead of air to reduce the surface tension and facilitate v...
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Language: | English |
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Oman Medical Specialty Board
2011-01-01
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Series: | Oman Medical Journal |
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Online Access: | http://journals.indexcopernicus.com/fulltxt.php?ICID=931235 |