Hemodynamics and positive end-expiratory pressure in critically ill patients.
This article examines the factors that affect the transmission of airway pressures to intrathoracic structures. The effects of positive end-expiratory pressure on central venous pressures, cardiac filling pressures, and right and left ventricular function are discussed. Various techniques for estimating intrathoracic pressures and their limitations are reviewed.
Klinger
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Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brown University, School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
D016275:Atrial Function; D001794:Blood Pressure; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration; D011652:Pulmonary Circulation / Q000502:physiology; D016276:Ventricular Function / Q000502:physiology