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.
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brown University, School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
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Klinger
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