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Prehospital amiodarone may increase the incidence of acute respiratory distress syndrome among patients at risk
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Prehospital amiodarone may increase the incidence of acute respiratory distress syndrome among patients at risk

Lioudmila V Karnatovskaia, Emir Festic, Ognjen Gajic, Rickey E Carter, Augustine S Lee and US Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group: Lung Injury Prevention Study Investigators (USCIITG-LIPS)
Journal of critical care, Vol.27(5), pp.447-453
10/2012
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2011.10.009
PMCID: PMC4349894
PMID: 22226422

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Abstract

Amiodarone has been implicated as a risk factor for acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) when used in the hospital. This study aims to estimate whether prehospital amiodarone also increases the risk of ALI/ARDS.
Acute respiratory distress syndrome Acute lung injury Amiodarone

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