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Acute respiratory failure: To intubate or not to intubate? Think about Noninvasive Ventilation!
 
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Professor of Critical Care Medicine Democritus University of Thrace
 
 
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Ioannis Pneumatikos   

Intensive Care Medicine University Hospital of Alexandroupolis Alexandroupolis, 68100, Greece
 
 
Pneumon 2011;24(2):139-141
 
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