Abstract Background Patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure in the intensive care unit (ICU) are treated with supplemental oxygen, but the benefits and harms of different oxygenation targ...

In patients with extensive burns several causes may underliehypoxic respiratory failure and bilateral infiltrates on the chestX-ray in the first week afterburn: cardiogenic pulmonaryedema as a result of congestive heart failure, pneumonia and/or adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). In particular, …