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Intensive Care Medicine Experimental
Fig. 5 | Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Fig. 5

From: Transpulmonary and pleural pressure in a respiratory system model with an elastic recoiling lung and an expanding chest wall

Fig. 5

Tidal airway P/V curves (red) starting from PEEP levels of 0, 4, 8, and 12 cmH2O and lung P/V curves (blue) starting from from ZEEP to end-inspiration at the highest PEEP level. Filled circles = end-expiratory airway P/V points. Note that the lung P/V curves have been transpositioned in parallel from their actual starting point at ≈5 cmH2O to zero to visualize that the slope of the lung P/V curve is identical to the slope of the end-expiratory airway P/V points (for actual position of lung P/V curves, see Fig. 7). Note that the lung P/V curve during PEEP inflation is unaffected by stiffness of the chest wall

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