Benefits of Spontaneous Breathing : Compared with Mechanical Ventilation
When spontaneous breathing (SB) is allowed during mechanical ventilation (MV), atelectatic lung areas are recruited and oxygenation improves thereby. Whether unsupported SB at its natural pattern (without PEEP and at low pressure/small tidal volume) equally recruits and improves oxygenation, and if...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Uppsala universitet, Anestesiologi och intensivvård
2012
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-182564 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-554-8498-9 |