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The Intensive Care Unit: The Next-Generation Operating Room

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Acute Care Surgery

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A 39-year-old man is in his seventh day in the intensive care unit on ventilatory support (transoral-translaryngeal endotracheal intubation) after having acute care surgery for a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. Although the patient has brain stem function and is hemodynamically stable, he is unresponsive to voice.The current ventilator settings are as follows:

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    Philip S. Barie MD, MBA

  2. Department of Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University/New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA

    Soumitra R. Eachempati MD & Jian Shou MD

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    L. D. Britt MD, MPH (Brickhouse Professor of Surgery and Chairman) (Brickhouse Professor of Surgery and Chairman)

  2. Department of Surgery, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR, USA

    Donald D. Trunkey MD (Professor) (Professor)

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Barie, P.S., Eachempati, S.R., Shou, J. (2007). The Intensive Care Unit: The Next-Generation Operating Room. In: Britt, L.D., Trunkey, D.D., Feliciano, D.V. (eds) Acute Care Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-69012-4_8

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