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

Fig. 5

From: Personalizing mechanical ventilation according to physiologic parameters to stabilize alveoli and minimize ventilator induced lung injury (VILI)

Fig. 5

Lung ventilation during a decremental PEEP (15–0 cmH2O) trial measured by electrical impedance tomography (EIT) in patients following cardiac surgery. The top row images from the cranial and the bottom row images from the caudal thoracic lung level. The optimal regional compliance was different between the cranial (10 and 5 cmH2O) and caudal levels (15 and 10 cmH2O) suggesting that no single optimal PEEP may exist for all lung levels [87]

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