Search Tag: Mechanical Power
2024 16 Sep
Mechanical ventilation is essential for managing acute respiratory failure but can cause ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI). VILI arises from four main mechanisms: alveolar over-distention (volutrauma), over-pressurisation (barotrauma), cyclic opening and collapse of alveoli (atelectotrauma), and inflammation (biotrauma), leading to alveolar...Read more
2023 13 Oct
Mechanical power is an easy bedside tool to guide lung protective ventilation, as it is an index of the energy load applied to the lung during mechanical ventilation and expresses in one formula all the main determinants of ventilator-induced lung injury. Although a threshold value has not already been defined, a mechanical power greater than 17...Read more