ventilator machine controls The effects of positive end expiratory pressure in COVID-19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) are similar to those reported in classical ARDS. The effects ...

Recognition of ventilator-induced lung injury led to the development of the baby lung concept by Luciano Gattinoni1 and to ...

Objective: To obtain optimal titration of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) during mechanical ventilation with functional residual capacity and ventilation homogeneity measurements. Design: ...

In 1967, Ashbaugh et al. 1 introduced the use of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) during mechanical ventilation to treat refractory hypoxemia in patients with the acute respiratory distress ...

As Covid-19 began to lay siege to New York City’s hospitals in March, a small but consequential debate broke out in American emergency rooms and intensive care units: Was it possible that ventilators, ...

The initiation of breathing at birth is an essential but complex adaptation that must rapidly transition the fluid filled fetal lung to gas exchange (1). Critical components of this transition are ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A similar proportion of patients in the high and low PEEP groups experienced pulmonary complications after ...

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Medical Director, Adult Emergency Services, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, ...

Mechanical ventilation, the use of a machine to help a person breathe, was not something many people thought about all that often—until the COVID pandemic struck. Stories of patients being put on ...