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Ventilation of the Neuromuscular Patient with Bill Bortcosh, Part 1

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The Importance of Positive Pressure in Paradoxical Breathing

In the ICU, we give peep and place lines. Do you guys know what that is? Yeah, they need some positive pressure. You can basically force anyone to have normal breathing with the right machinery. It's essentially when the chest wall and the abdominal wall moved asynchronously during the respiratory cycle. Similar to decreased FRC and concerns for elevated closing capacity, you fix this with positive pressure with peep.

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