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20-05-2022 | What's New in Intensive Care
Automation to improve lung protection
Authors:
Laura A. Buiteman-Kruizinga, Ary Serpa Neto, Marcus J. Schultz
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 7/2022
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Excerpt
Lung protective ventilation, usually referred to as ventilation with low tidal volumes (
VT) and low inspiratory pressures (Pinsp), has repeatedly been shown to reduce mortality in patients with acute lung injury [
1]. Conservative oxygen supplementation, a strategy that prevents arterial hyperoxemia through restricted use of oxygen [
2], could be seen as another way to protect the lungs as use of low fractions of inspired oxygen (FiO
2) reduces the direct toxic effects of oxygen on pulmonary tissue. Ventilation with low driving pressure (Δ
P) and less mechanical power (MP) may also improve outcomes [
3,
4 …