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Pretty as a Picture: Using Electrical Impedance Tomography to Avoid Alveolar Overdistension in ARDS Patients Undergoing Mechanical Ventilation

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Bob Heise from the University of Michigan discusses advances in personalized respiratory medicine, focusing on optimizing positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) in patients with conditions like ARDS, pneumonia, and sepsis. He highlights the limitations of a one-size-fits-all approach to PEEP, referring to studies showing varied lung recruitability. He introduces Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) as a tool for individually tailored PEEP settings, which can detect optimal PEEP by balancing lung collapse and over-distension. Findings suggest EIT could lead to reduced mechanical power and driving pressure, potentially improving patient outcomes while emphasizing the need for more research.

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One-Hour Concurrent Session | Frontiers in Personalized Mechanical Ventilation for ARDS

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Membership Level Professional

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Year 2024

Keywords

personalized respiratory medicine

positive end-expiratory pressure

Electrical Impedance Tomography

lung recruitability

patient outcomes

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