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01-09-2018 | What's New in Intensive Care
Inspiratory preload obliteration may injure lungs via cyclical “on–off” vascular flow
Authors:
B. H. Katira, W. M. Kuebler, B. P. Kavanagh
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 9/2018
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Excerpt
Mechanical ventilation is the mainstay of supportive treatment for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and high tidal volumes worsen outcome [
1,
2]. The current paper considers how the pulmonary vasculature might participate in the development of ventilator-associated lung injury, and how recent research insights might ultimately be exploited in practice. …