Metabolic acidosis may be as protective as hypercapnic acidosis in an ex-vivo model of severe ventilator-induced lung injury: a pilot study

Metabolic acidosis may be as protective as hypercapnic acidosis in an ex-vivo model of severe ventilator-induced lung injury: a pilot study

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>There is mounting experimental evidence that hypercapnic acidosis protects against lung injury. However, it is unclear if acidosis <it>per se </it>rather than hypercapnia is responsible for this beneficial effect. Therefo...

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Main Authors: Patsouris Efstratios, Agrogiannis George, Kopterides Petros, Metaxas Eugenios I, Siempos Ilias I, Kapetanakis Theodoros, Lazaris Andreas C, Stravodimos Konstantinos G, Roussos Charis, Armaganidis Apostolos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-04-01
Series:BMC Anesthesiology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2253/11/8

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