The success of endobronchial valves is therefore highly dependent on lobar isolation and collateral ventilation which, as described above, occurs in a significant number of patients. Further techniques have been developed to assess CV (28). The Chartis system allows the targeted lobe to be occluded ...
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and not the plateau pressures are thought to be responsible for causing ventilator-induced lung injury [29,30]. Because IAH increases inspiratory peak airway, plateau and pleural pressures similarly, the impact on trans-pulmonary pressures is only minimal. This explains why suggested lung-protective ...
Does PEEP really rupture alveoli? If so, by wh... D. Pierson - 《Respiratory Care》 被引量: 52发表: 1988年 Presence of pneumomediastinum after blunt trauma in children: what does it really mean? Pneumomediastinum after blunt thoracic trauma is often considered a marker of serious aerodigestive...
My son is 8 months old born at 29 weeks and has been on the ventilator for a long time then shifted to CPAP. Then he was able to breathe without either but he got an infection and went back to the ventilator at PIP of 13 and PEEP of 5 and his oxygen need is 21%. Can we shif...
Based on the test and neuroligist evaluation of the sleep study my dr. is recommedning a bipap. I'm a little confused. I have no real issues with my cpap (maxed out at 20 liters and has been for several years). If both machines were maxed out at 20 liters, what good would a ...
The incidence of intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) is high and still underappreciated by critical care physicians throughout the world. One in four to one in three patients will have IAH on admission, while one out of two will develop IAH within the fir