Patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) frequently require invasive mechanical ventilation
and admission to an intensive care unit. Ventilation of patients with TBI poses unique clinical …

Major pulmonary disorders may occur after brain injuries as ventilator-associated
pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome or neurogenic pulmonary edema. They are …

Every year, more information accumulates about the possibility of treating patients with acute
lung injury or acute respiratory distress syndrome with specially designed mechanical …

In patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), the lung comprises areas of
aeration and areas of alveolar collapse, the latter producing intrapulmonary shunt and …

Background Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients often develop acute respiratory
failure. Optimal ventilator strategies in this setting are not well established. We performed an …

Maintenance of adequate oxygenation is a mainstay of intensive care, however,
recommendations on the safety, accuracy, and the potential clinical utility of invasive and …

It has been convincingly demonstrated in recent years that isolated acute brain injury (ABI)
may cause severe dysfunction of peripheral extracranial organs and systems. Of all potential …

Purpose To measure the dynamics of recruitment and the hemodynamic status during a
sustained inflation recruitment maneuver (RM) in order to determine the optimal duration of …

Objective The impact of lung-recruitment maneuvers on heart function at different volemic
levels has not been studied in detail. We therefore investigated the effect on central …

BACKGROUND Intra-operative ventilation using low/physiological tidal volume and positive
end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) with periodic alveolar recruitment manoeuvres (ARMs) is …