Why high levels of positive end-expiratory pressure are required to maintain a stable end-expiratory lung volume in morbidly obese subjects

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Published inActa anaesthesiologica Scandinavica Vol. 51; no. 6; pp. 783 - 784
Main Authors Koutsoukou, A, Koulouris, N. G.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2007
Subjects
Adult
Anesthesia, General
Electric Impedance
Equipment Design
Exhalation - physiology
Humans
Lung - anatomy & histology
Obesity, Morbid - pathology
Obesity, Morbid - therapy
Positive-Pressure Respiration - instrumentation
Positive-Pressure Respiration - methods
Pulmonary Gas Exchange
Tomography
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ISSN0001-5172
1399-6576
DOI10.1111/j.1399-6576.2007.01330.x

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ISSN:0001-5172
1399-6576
DOI:10.1111/j.1399-6576.2007.01330.x