Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Nov 2014
The assessment of transpulmonary pressure in mechanically ventilated ARDS patients.
The optimal method for estimating transpulmonary pressure (i.e. the fraction of the airway pressure transmitted to the lung) has not yet been established. ⋯ Based on our observations, elastance-derived transpulmonary pressure can be considered to be an adequate surrogate of the release-derived transpulmonary pressure, while the release-derived and directly measured end-expiratory transpulmonary pressure are not related.