• Critical care medicine · Jan 2006

    Case Reports

    Pressure-flow signatures of central-airway mucus plugging.

    • Maryam Zamanian and John J Marini.
    • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN, USA.
    • Crit. Care Med. 2006 Jan 1; 34 (1): 223-6.

    SettingMedical Intensive Care Unit of Regions Hospital, a University of Minnesota-affiliated teaching hospital.PatientMechanically ventilated woman with status asthmaticus and acute respiratory failure.InterventionObservations of airway pressure and flow tracings before and after bronchoscopic inspection and airway lavage.Main ResultsFour newly observed signs were recorded that may serve to identify occult central airway mucus plugging in the ventilated asthmatic patient.

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