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Clinical review: The implications of experimental and clinical studies of recruitment maneuvers in acute lung injury

Mechanical ventilation can cause and perpetuate lung injury if alveolar overdistension, cyclic collapse, and reopening of alveolar units occur. The use of low tidal volume and limited airway pressure has improved survival in patients with acute lung injury or acute respiratory distress syndrome. The...

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Autores principales: Piacentini, Enrique, Villagrá, Ana, López-Aguilar, Josefina, Blanch, Lluis
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC420020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15025772
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc2364