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Computerised tomography scan imaging in acute respiratory distress syndrome
A Pesenti1, P Tagliabue, N Patroniti
1Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Department, Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, Ospedale Nuovo S. Gerardo, via G. Donizetti 106, 20052 Monza, Milan, Italy. antonio.pesenti@unimib.it
Intensive Care Medicine
|June 12, 2001
Abstract:
Computerised tomography (CT) is being used with increasing frequency in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients. This brief review will discuss some of the clinical insights that a CT scan can offer. A large number of CT scan studies have provided new insights into the pathophysiology of ARDS and of mechanical ventilation, and are particularly focused on the recruitment-derecruitment phenomenon. To this end, newer fast CT scan technology promises a dynamic, rather than a static view of lung ventilation.