Argument against the Routine Use of Steroids for Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Steroids have a plausible mechanism of action of reducing severity of lung disease in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) but have failed to show consistent benefits in patient-centered outcomes. Many studies have confounding from the likely presence of ventilator-induced lung injury and ster...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-07-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Pediatrics |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fped.2016.00079/full |