Spontaneous Effort Causes Occult Pendelluft during Mechanical Ventilation
Spontaneous Effort Causes Occult Pendelluft during Mechanical Ventilation
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New York, NY: American Thoracic Society
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English
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New York, NY: American Thoracic Society
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In normal lungs, local changes in pleural pressure (P(pl)) are generalized over the whole pleural surface. However, in a patient with injured lungs, we observed (using electrical impedance tomography) a pendelluft phenomenon (movement of air within the lung from nondependent to dependent regions without change in tidal volume) that was caused by sp...
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Spontaneous Effort Causes Occult Pendelluft during Mechanical Ventilation
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1477552549
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1477552549
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1073-449X
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1535-4970
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10.1164/rccm.201303-0539OC
