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Transpulmonary and pleural pressure in a respiratory system model with an elastic recoiling lung and an expanding chest wall
BACKGROUND: We have shown in acute lung injury patients that lung elastance can be determined by a positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) step procedure and proposed that this is explained by the spring-out force of the rib cage off-loading the chest wall from the lung at end-expiration. The aim of...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5028371/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27645151 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40635-016-0103-4 |