Patient-ventilator interactions.
Patient-ventilator synchrony is important in the management of the ventilator-dependent patient. Factors inherent to the patient and the ventilator influence patient-ventilator synchrony. Detection of patient-ventilator synchrony may require monitoring of airway pressure and flow waveforms.
Dick
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Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California, Irvine, College of Medicine, USA.
Sassoon
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D006801:Humans; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D015656:Respiratory Mechanics; D013990:Tidal Volume; D014939:Work of Breathing