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Gas exchange in acute lung injury
1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston Medical School.
Critical Care Clinics
|July 1, 1986
Abstract:
The predominant mechanism of abnormal gas exchange in patients with the adult respiratory distress syndrome is intrapulmonary shunting. However, other abnormalities of cardiopulmonary function may modify the degree of hypoxemia that is seen, and must be considered when interpreting the effect of therapy.