Dorsal recruitment with flow-controlled expiration (FLEX): an experimental study in mechanically ventilated lung-healthy and lung-injured pigs.

Silke BorgmannJohannes SchmidtUlrich GoebelJoerg HaberstrohJosef GuttmannStefan Schumann
Published in: Critical care (London, England) (2018)
FLEX shifts regional ventilation towards dependent lung areas in healthy and in injured pig lungs. The recruiting capabilities of FLEX may be mainly responsible for lung-protective effects observed in an earlier study.