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Improving Ventilation by Reaeration of Atelectatic Regions with Perfluorocarbons

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Patients with acute respiratory failure have a disturbed pulmonary surfactant system which causes an elevated surface tension at the air-tissue interface of the alveoli in the lung. This elevated surface tension leads to end-expiratory alveolar collapse, to atelectasis, to an increase in right-to-left shunt, and to a decrease in PaO2. Therefore, in these patients it is essential to apply a ventilatory treatment that is aimed at recruiting those collapsed alveoli and improving gas-exchange at the lowest possible airway pressures.

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  1. Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Trieste University School of Medicine, Trieste, Italy

    Antonino Gullo M.D. (Head) (Head)

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Böhm, S., Fraterman, A., Lachmann, B. (1997). Improving Ventilation by Reaeration of Atelectatic Regions with Perfluorocarbons. In: Gullo, A. (eds) Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E.. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2296-6_25

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