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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: 2023 Guidelines

JAMA Clinical Reviews

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The Physiology of a Ventilator in a Patient With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

The modern ventilator doesn't do what the iron lung does. We take in a breath, we actually expand our chest cage and create negative pressure inside the lung. Mechanical ventilators are on the outside and they push air in. The main thing to do is not keep the peep unnecessarily high for too long.

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