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Pulmonary Critical Care and Mechanical Ventilation

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Aging has a negative impact on all organ systems in the body. Age-related diminution in reserve is felt on the respiratory system the earliest [1], and trauma to the chest has a disproportionate influence on outcomes following injury at all ages [2]. In addition to this direct impact chest trauma has on outcomes, even in the absence of direct chest injury, adequate oxygenation is critical to healing of all injured tissues/organs with the injured brain being at greatest risk of even brief periods of hypoxemia during the immediate post-injury period. For these reasons adequate pulmonary care following injury is critically important not only from the respiratory standpoint but also for overall recovery.

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Malhotra, A.K. (2017). Pulmonary Critical Care and Mechanical Ventilation. In: Luchette, F., Yelon, J. (eds) Geriatric Trauma and Critical Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48687-1_36

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