The upper inflection point of the pressure-volume curve: Influence of methodology and of different modes of ventilation

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 842-849

  Servillo, Giuseppe ^a   De Robertis, Edoardo ^a   Maggiore, Salvatore ^b   Lemaire, François ^b   Brochard, Laurent ^b   Tufano, Rosalba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS); Mechanical ventilation; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AERATION; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRESSURE VOLUME CURVE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIDAL VOLUME; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; TIDAL VOLUME; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036020295     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-002-1293-7     Document Type: Article

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