Optimizing gas exchange, avoiding lung injury, and preserving respiratory muscle strength
and endurance are vital therapeutic objectives for managing acute lung injury. Accordingly …

Alveolar recruitment is one of the primary goals of respiratory care for acute lung injury. It is
aimed at improving pulmonary gas exchange and, even more important, at protecting the …

We tested the hypothesis that collapsed alveoli opened by a recruitment maneuver would be
unstable or recollapse without adequate positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) after …

This Pulmonary Perspective describes a new pathophysiologic scenario by which the acute
respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) might develop, summarizes the literature on which …

Rationale: Noisy ventilation with variable Vt may improve respiratory function in acute lung
injury. Objectives: To determine the impact of noisy ventilation on respiratory function and its …

Physiologic systems in health and disease display an extraordinary range of temporal
behaviors and structural patterns that defy understanding based on linear constructs …

The seemingly straightforward task of tying one's shoes requires a sophisticated interplay of
joints, muscles, and neural pathways, posing a formidable challenge for researchers …

Dexterous action, as conceptualized by Bernstein in his influential ecological analysis of
human behavior, is revealed in the ability to flexibly generate behaviors that are adaptively …

The development of acute ventilatory failure represents an inability of the respiratory control
system to maintain a level of respiratory motor output to cope with the metabolic demands of …

Background and Purpose: Physical therapists seek to optimize movement as a means of
reducing disability and improving health. The short-term effects of interventions designed to …