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Bedside assessment of the effects of positive end-expiratory pressure on lung inflation and recruitment by the helium dilution technique and electrical impedance tomography.

Tommaso MauriNilde EroniaCecilia TurriniMarta BattistiniGiacomo GrasselliRoberto RonaCarlo Alberto VoltaGiacomo BellaniAntonio Pesenti
Published in: Intensive care medicine (2016)
Close correlations exist between bedside assessment of positive end-expiratory pressure-induced changes in lung inflation and recruitment by the helium dilution and electrical impedance tomography techniques. Higher positive end-expiratory pressure exerts mixed effects on the regional determinants of ventilator-induced lung injury; these merit close monitoring.
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