title: Ultrasonography for the assessment of lung recruitment maneuvers.
abstract: Lung collapse is a known complication that affects most of the patients undergoing positive pressure mechanical ventilation. Such atelectasis and airways closure lead to gas exchange and lung mechanics impairment and has the potential to develop an inflammatory response in the lungs. These negative effects of lung collapse can be reverted by a lung recruitment maneuver (RM) i.e. a ventilatory strategy that resolves lung collapse by a brief and controlled increment in airway pressures. However, an unsolved question is how to assess such RM at the bedside. The aim of this paper is to describe the usefulness of lung sonography (LUS) to conduct and personalize RM in a real-time way at the bedside. LUS has favorable features to assess lung recruitment due to its high specificity and sensitivity to detect lung collapse together with its non-invasiveness, availability and simple use.
authors: Department of Anesthesiology, Hospital Privado de Comunidad, Córdoba 4545, 7600, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. gtusman@hotmail.com.
authors: Gerardo
authors: G
authors: Tusman
authors: Department of Anesthesiology, Hospital Privado de Comunidad, Córdoba 4545, 7600, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors: Cecilia M
authors: CM
authors: Acosta
authors: Department of Anesthesiology, Hospital Privado de Comunidad, Córdoba 4545, 7600, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors: Mauro
authors: M
authors: Costantini
keywords: Atelectasis; Lung ultrasound; Recruitment maneuvers; Tidal recruitment; VILI