Journal article
Therapeutic use of intrinsic positive end-expiratory pressure
Critical care medicine, Vol.18(3), pp.336-337
03/1990
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199003000-00019
PMID: 2406109
Abstract
A patient with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure undergoing mechanical ventilation with PEEP developed significant obstructive airway disease. We found that intrinsic PEEP, substituted for externally applied PEEP, could maintain oxygenation. The increased inspiratory/expiratory time ratio, which resulted in the development of intrinsic PEEP, beneficially reduced airway pressures.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Therapeutic use of intrinsic positive end-expiratory pressure
- Creators
- KEITH Walley - University of ChicagoGREGORY Schmidt
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Critical care medicine, Vol.18(3), pp.336-337
- Publisher
- Williams & Wilkins
- DOI
- 10.1097/00003246-199003000-00019
- PMID
- 2406109
- ISSN
- 0090-3493
- eISSN
- 1530-0293
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/1990
- Academic Unit
- Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984360148702771
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