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Effect of Recruitment Maneuvers and PEEP on Respiratory Failure
After Cardiothoracic Surgery in Obese Subjects: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Priscilla Amaru, Bertrand Delannoy, Thibaut Genty, Olivier Desebbe, Florent Laverdure, Saida Rezaiguia-Delclaux and François Stéphan
Respiratory Care August 2021, 66 (8) 1306-1314; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4187/respcare.08607

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    Flow chart. BMI = body mass index; ECMO = extra corporeal membrane oxygenation; IABP = intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation; LVEF = left-ventricular ejection fraction; RM = recruitment maneuver.

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    Absence of postextubation respiratory failure within 7 d after extubation in obese subjects who underwent heart surgery and randomized to a recruitment maneuver (RM) followed by 5 or 10 cm H2O PEEP (RM5 and RM10 groups, respectively) or with no RM and with 5 cm H2O PEEP (control).

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