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Therapeutic use of intrinsic positive end-expiratory pressure
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Therapeutic use of intrinsic positive end-expiratory pressure

KEITH Walley and GREGORY Schmidt
Critical care medicine, Vol.18(3), pp.336-337
03/1990
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199003000-00019
PMID: 2406109

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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.

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