Variation of poorly ventilated lung units (silent spaces) measured by electrical impedance tomography to dynamically assess recruitment

Assessing alveolar recruitment at different positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) levels is a major clinical and research interest because protective ventilation implies opening the lung without inducing ove...

Source: Critical Care - January 31, 2018 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Savino Spadaro, Tommaso Mauri, Stephan H. B öhm, Gaetano Scaramuzzo, Cecilia Turrini, Andreas D. Waldmann, Riccardo Ragazzi, Antonio Pesenti and Carlo Alberto Volta Tags: Research Source Type: research