Secretion management in mechanically ventilated patients is a paramount task for clinicians.
A better understanding of the mechanisms of flow bias and airway dynamic compression …

Objective: To compare the effects of oxygen, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP),
and bilevel positive airway pressure (bilevel-PAP) on the rate of endotracheal intubation in …

Objectives: Pneumothorax is a frequent complication during mechanical ventilation.
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a noninvasive tool that allows real-time imaging of …

BACKGROUND: Retention of airway secretions is a common and serious problem in
ventilated patients. Treating or avoiding secretion retention with mucus thinning, patient-positioning…

Importance Perioperative lung-protective ventilation has been recommended to reduce
pulmonary complications after cardiac surgery. The protective role of a small tidal volume (V T ) …

BACKGROUND: Standard mechanical insufflation-exsufflation (MI-E) therapy is applied
with fast insufflation-exsufflation pressures to achieve high peak expiratory flows (PEF) and …

… Since the use of expiratory flow bias has a clear rationale 24 24 Volpe MS, Adams AB,
Amato MB, Marini JJ. Ventilation patterns influence airway secretion movement. Respir Care. …

Objectives To investigate the effects of ventilation mode and manual chest compression (MCC)
application on the flow bias generated during positive end-expiratory pressure–zero end-…

… With regard to the choice between the threshold based on the PEF/PIF ratio and that
based on PEF - PIF difference, Volpe et al. 11 Volpe MS, Adams AB, Amato MB, Marini JJ. …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate, in a lung model simulating a mechanically ventilated patient, the
efficiency and safety of the manual hyperinflation (MH) maneuver as a means of removing …