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Monitoring Lung Function with Electrical Impedance Tomography in the Intensive Care Unit
Published on: September 6, 2024
Detection of patient-ventilator asynchrony should be improved: and then what?
Hermann Wrigge1, Felix Girrbach1, Gunther Hempel1
1Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
No abstract available in PubMed .
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