Effect of decreasing PEEP on hyperinflation and collapse in COVID-19: A computed tomography study.
Alessandro SantiniAlessandro ProttiFrancesca PennatiFrancesca Dalla CorteNicolò MartinettiLuca PuglieseGiorgio PicardoChiara ChiurazziMichele FerrariElena CostantiniAndrea AlivertiMaurizio CecconiPublished in: Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (2024)
In 20 patients with COVID-19 the net response to decreasing PEEP, as assessed with lung CT, was variable. In approximately half of them it was positive (and possibly beneficial), with a decrease in hyperinflation larger than the increase in collapse.