The Reign of the Ventilator: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, COVID-19, and Technological Imperatives in Intensive Care
- 1 August 2021
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 174 (8), 1145-1150
- https://doi.org/10.7326/m21-0270
Abstract
In the current COVID-19 pandemic, the use of ventilators has been an area of intense focus. The introduction of this technology in the mid-20th century led to transformations in the conception of r... In the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, a dispute arose as to whether the disease caused a typical or atypical version of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). This essay recounts the em...This publication has 34 references indexed in Scilit:
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