Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Feb 2002
Equal increases in respiratory system elastance reflect similar lung damage in experimental ventilator-induced lung injury.
We hypothesized that a 50% increase in respiratory system elastance (Ers) would indicate similar degree of lung damage (equi-damage, ED), independently of ventilation strategy. ⋯ In the setting of VILI a 50% increase in Ers corresponds to an equal level of lung damage, irrespective of ventilatory setting and time of ventilation.
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Intensive care medicine · Feb 2002
Editorial CommentAre we doing a good job: PRISM, PIM and all that.