title: Measurement of respiratory system resistance during mechanical ventilation.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The measurement of respiratory system resistance during mechanical ventilation is important to ascertain the causes of increase in airway pressure during volume-controlled ventilation, which may include airways resistance and decreased respiratory system compliance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Separation of total resistance from compliance of the respiratory system can be assessed by the end-inspiratory hold maneuver that separates peak pressure from plateau pressure.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although this method assumes a homogeneous respiratory system, it has proven useful clinically to separate flow-dependence issues such as bronchospasm or endotracheal tube obstruction from stiff lungs (acute lung injury) or decrease chest wall (abdominal distension) compliance.
authors: Hôpital de la Croix Rousse and Université de Lyon, Service de Réanimation Médicale, 103 Grande Rue de la Croix Rousse, 69004 Lyon, France. claude.guerin@chu-lyon.fr
authors: Claude
authors: C
authors: Guerin
authors: Jean-Christophe
authors: JC
authors: Richard
mesh_terms: D000403:Airway Resistance / Q000502:physiology*; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000503:physiopathology; D012137:Respiratory System