• Clinics in chest medicine · Sep 1996

    Review

    Mechanical ventilation in obstructive lung disease.

    • J W Leatherman.
    • Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, USA.
    • Clin. Chest Med. 1996 Sep 1;17(3):577-90.

    AbstractThis article reviews selected topics relevant to the use of mechanical ventilation in patients with severe airflow obstruction. Areas discussed include the bedside assessment of respiratory system mechanics, the ventilatory determinants of dynamic pulmonary hyperinflation, the role of controlled hypoventilation with permissive hypercapnia, and the delivery of bronchodilators during mechanical ventilation.

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