Current opinion in anaesthesiology
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Curr Opin Anaesthesiol · Dec 2006
ReviewAlveolar recruitment versus hyperinflation: A balancing act.
To address lung recruitment according to pressure/volume curves, along with regional recruitment versus hyperinflation evidence from computed tomography and electrical impedance tomography. ⋯ Positive end-expiratory pressure levels must be high enough to minimize recruitment/derecruitment cycling. Balancing recruitment versus overdistension may require thoracic tomography, to assure sufficient improvement in oxygenation while limiting hypercarbia.