Assessing the quantity of pulmonary edema in critically ill children.
Measuring extravascular lung water may be useful for predicting outcome in adults with acute lung injury. The present commentary briefly reviews the potential role and limitations of extravascular lung water measurement in critically ill children.
McAuley
Daniel F
DF
Regional Intensive Care Unit, Royal Victoria Hospital, Grosvenor Road, Belfast BT12 6BA, N Ireland. d.f.mcauley@qub.ac.uk
Brown
Lisa M
LM
Matthay
Michael A
MA
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D016638:Critical Illness / Q000453:epidemiology; D015633:Extravascular Lung Water / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D015278:Intensive Care Units, Pediatric; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D013815:Thermodilution
Crit Care Med. 2008 Jan;36(1):69-73
18090369
Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2008 Jun;294(6):L1021-2
18441090
Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2008 Jun;294(6):L1023-31
18359882
Intensive Care Med. 1999 Feb;25(2):216-9
10193551
Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2009 Oct;297(4):L547-58
19617309
Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2009 Mar;10(2):227-33
19057433
Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2006 Feb 1;173(3):281-7
16254268
Crit Care Med. 2004 Jul;32(7):1550-4
15241101
Crit Care Med. 2010 Jan;38(1):114-20
19789451
Crit Care. 2010;14(3):R105
20529308
Crit Care Med. 2004 Jul;32(7):1470-6
15241090