title: Why knowing the effects of positive-pressure ventilation on venous, pleural, and pericardial pressures is important to the bedside clinician?*.
authors.affiliation: Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
authors.forename: Michael R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Pinsky
mesh_terms: D002302:Cardiac Output / Q000502:physiology*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration / Q000379:methods*; D013909:Thorax / Q000502:physiology*