Published in:
01-05-2016 | Understanding the Disease
Understanding recruitment maneuvers
Authors:
Erica Aranha Suzumura, Marcelo Britto Passos Amato, Alexandre Biasi Cavalcanti
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 5/2016
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Excerpt
A recruitment maneuver (RM) is the process of inducing an intentional transient increase in transpulmonary pressure aimed at reopening non-aerated or poorly aerated alveoli. The immediate expected benefits are improvements in oxygenation and respiratory system compliance [
1]. …