title: Intrinsic PEEP: a cause of inspiratory muscle ineffectivity.
abstract: Intrinsic PEEP has been described as an inspiratory threshold load to the inspiratory muscles that could increase the work of breathing. We report a patient who presented ineffective inspiratory efforts to trigger the ventilator; when we applied PEEP in similar amounts of measured intrinsic PEEP, his inspiratory efforts became able to trigger the ventilator, suggesting that the inspiratory load was alleviated.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Medicina Intensiva, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fernández
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Benito
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Blanch
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Net
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007320:Inspiratory Capacity; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000150:complications*; D012132:Respiratory Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology*