High positive end-expiratory pressure and low tidal volume in acute respiratory distress syndrome: all right for the right ventricle?

Crit Care Med. 2010 Mar;38(3):986-7. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181d16ab7.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Editorial
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Acute Lung Injury / physiopathology*
  • Acute Lung Injury / therapy*
  • Blood Volume / physiology
  • Cardiac Catheterization
  • Echocardiography
  • Hemodynamics / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / physiopathology
  • Positive-Pressure Respiration / methods*
  • Prognosis
  • Respiratory Distress Syndrome / physiopathology*
  • Respiratory Distress Syndrome / therapy*
  • Tidal Volume / physiology*
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Ventricular Function, Right / physiology*