ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: Driving Pressure & Stress Index
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By Jon-Emile S. Kenny [@heart_lung] The problem with the lung in the acute respiratory distress syndrome [ARDS] is not that it is stiff, but rather, that it is small [1]. In the 1980s, CT scans of the lungs of patients with ARDS revealed that the functional lung was attenuated in size and that dependent densities formed [
ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: Driving Pressure & Stress Index
ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: Driving…
ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: Driving Pressure & Stress Index
By Jon-Emile S. Kenny [@heart_lung] The problem with the lung in the acute respiratory distress syndrome [ARDS] is not that it is stiff, but rather, that it is small [1]. In the 1980s, CT scans of the lungs of patients with ARDS revealed that the functional lung was attenuated in size and that dependent densities formed [