Underestimating stress and delivering too high of a tidal volume may enhance the risk of ventilator-induced lung injury. To determine whether measurement of plateau pressure is an accurate ...

The response to low-tidal-volume ventilation should be assessed initially on the basis of plateau airway pressure. The goal should be to maintain a plateau airway pressure (i.e., the pressure ...

Other modes of ventilation, such as pressure-regulated ... which relate most closely to plateau pressure. Plateau pressures greater than 35 cm H 2 O likely will lead to barotrauma.

In such patients, much of the pressure that is applied by the ventilator will be used to distend the chest wall rather than the lung. As such, the plateau pressure may be high, but so will the ...

Too much respiratory effort can injure both the lung and the diaphragm, whereas too much ventilator support with unduly high ...

You may know about the type of ventilator that pumps oxygen into your lungs. It’s called a “positive pressure ventilator.” That’s the main kind of ventilation that doctors use today.

A mechanical ventilator or positive pressure ventilator is an instrument used to help a patient to breathe when they are unable to breathe on their own. Over the past few decades, the technology ...