Why high levels of positive end-expiratory pressure are required to maintain a stable end-expiratory lung volume in morbidly obese subjects

Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2007 Jul;51(6):783-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2007.01330.x. Epub 2007 May 4.
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Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Anesthesia, General
  • Electric Impedance
  • Equipment Design
  • Exhalation / physiology
  • Humans
  • Lung / anatomy & histology*
  • Obesity, Morbid / pathology*
  • Obesity, Morbid / therapy*
  • Positive-Pressure Respiration / instrumentation
  • Positive-Pressure Respiration / methods*
  • Pulmonary Gas Exchange
  • Tomography