Static pressure-volume curves of the respiratory system: Were they just a passing fad?

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-86

  Albaiceta, Guillermo M ^a   Blanch, Lluis ^b   Lucangelo, Umberto ^c  

^a Asturias Central University Hospital   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute lung injury; Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Lung recruitment; Mechanical ventilation; Pressure volume curve

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYSTERESIS; INFLAMMATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG DISEASE; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRESSURE VOLUME CURVE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; REVIEW; SEDATION; THORAX WALL; TIDAL VOLUME; VENTILATOR;

HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG COMPLIANCE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

EID: 38149010415     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e3282f2b8f4     Document Type: Review

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