Acute Respiratory Failure and Interpretation of Chest Radiograph in the Intensive Care Unit
Gee Young Suh, MD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
ABSTRACT
Acute respiratory failure is one of most common disease entity seen in the intensive care unit (ICU). Also chest radiograph is one of most common imaging studies done in the ICU. This review will review important aspects of acute respiratory failure and chest radiography in the ICU.