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Mechanical Ventilation Guided by Esophageal pressure in Acute Lung Injury/ARDS

Methods • In esophageal-pressure guided group, mechanical ventilation settings determined by initial esophageal pressure measurements. • Tidal volume set at 6ml per kg predicted body weight. • PEEP set...

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Are Esophageal Pressure Measurements Important in Clinical

Respiratory Care 2010 vol. 55 (2) pp. 162-74 Thus, the currently recommended strategy of setting PEEP without regard to transpulmonary pressure is predicted to benefit some patients while harming...

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