The measurement of the pressure-volume curves with computerized methods.
The authors analyze the physiological basis, technical aspects and clinical usefulness of several methods for pressure-volume curves determinations in mechanically ventilatory, acute respiratory failure patients.
Servillo
G
G
Dipartimento Universitario di Scienze Chirurgiche, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi Federico II, Napoli.
Coppola
M
M
Blasi
F
F
Tufano
R
R
D000399:Air Pressure; D003201:Computers; D006801:Humans; D008176:Lung Volume Measurements / Q000379:methods*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000379:methods*