Understanding and avoiding ventilator-induced lung injury: Lessons from an insightful experimental study

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2418-2419

  Barbas, Carmen Silvia Valente ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

acute respiratory distress syndrome; pleural pressure gradient; positive endexpiratory pressure; pressure volume curve; transpulmonary pressure; ventilator induced lung injury

Indexed keywords

OLEIC ACID; SURFACTANT;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLADDER PRESSURE; EDITORIAL; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG VOLUME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; STOMACH PRESSURE; THORAX PRESSURE; THORAX WALL; TIDAL VOLUME; VENTILATOR INDUCED LUNG INJURY;

EID: 78650369397     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181fd6747     Document Type: Editorial

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