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Fig. 4 | Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Fig. 4

From: Regional pulmonary effects of bronchoalveolar lavage procedure determined by electrical impedance tomography

Fig. 4

Fractional bioimpedance change in ventral, middle and dorsal regions-of-interest. The fractional changes are given at three time points during the bronchoalveolar lavage procedure: after the disconnection of the endotracheal tube from the ventilator before the lavage fluid instillation (t1), after the fluid instillation (t2) and after the fluid suction before the resumption of ventilation (t3). The data was obtained first in supine (top row), then prone (middle row) and supine (bottom row) animals (supine I, prone and supine II, respectively). The significance of differences between the individual time points was derived from post analyses at *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01 and ***p < 0.001. Significantly different values from the supine I position at corresponding time points are given as †††p < 0.001 and from supine II position as ‡‡p < 0.01 and ‡‡‡p < 0.001

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