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Abstract
Prevention of iatrogenic injury due to ventilation of a heterogeneous lung requires knowledge of dynamic regional events occurring within the tidal cycle. Quantitative bedside imaging techniques that are sensitive to regional mechanics and tidal events hold potential for information delivery that cannot be realized by pressure-volume monitoring alone.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20804577 PMCID: PMC2945069 DOI: 10.1186/cc9028
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Crit Care ISSN: 1364-8535 Impact factor: 9.097