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Hemodynamics and positive end-expiratory pressure in critically ill patients
1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brown University, School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Critical Care Clinics
|October 1, 1996
Abstract:
This article examines the factors that affect the transmission of airway pressures to intrathoracic structures. The effects of positive end-expiratory pressure on central venous pressures, cardiac filling pressures, and right and left ventricular function are discussed. Various techniques for estimating intrathoracic pressures and their limitations are reviewed.