Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Mar 2020
Multicenter StudyBenefit-to-risk balance of bronchoalveolar lavage in the critically ill. A prospective, multicenter cohort study.
To assess the benefit-to-risk balance of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. ⋯ Adverse events related to BAL in ICU patients are not infrequent nor necessarily benign. Our findings call for an extreme caution, when envisaging a BAL in ICU patients and for a mandatory accompaniment of the less experienced physicians.