[Mechanical ventilation with lower, as compared with traditional tidal volumes, for acute respiratory distress syndrome due to aspiration pneumonia]

Michał Florczyk; Paweł Kuca; Joanna Wiśniewska; Janusz Burakowski; Witold Z Tomkowski

[Mechanical ventilation with lower, as compared with traditional tidal volumes, for acute respiratory distress syndrome due to aspiration pneumonia]

Pneumonol Alergol Pol. 2002;70(7-8):413-8.

[Article in Polish]

Authors

Michał Florczyk¹, Paweł Kuca, Joanna Wiśniewska, Janusz Burakowski, Witold Z Tomkowski

Affiliation

¹ Instytut Gruźlicy i Chorób Płuc, Warszawa.

PMID: 12708084

Abstract

54-years old patient with ARDS syndrome due to aspiration pneumonia is described. Mechanical ventilation with lower as compared with traditional tidal volumes in the treatment was successfully performed.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Pneumonia, Aspiration / complications*
Respiration, Artificial* / methods
Respiratory Distress Syndrome / etiology*
Respiratory Distress Syndrome / physiopathology
Respiratory Distress Syndrome / therapy*
Tidal Volume
Time Factors
Treatment Outcome