Characteristics Pediatrics Adults Impact on airway resistance with reduction in airway radius (e.g., airway edema) Greater increase Smaller increase Chest wall compliance Greater compliance Less compliance Functional residual capacity Lower…
Imaging Clinical and physiological information Advantages Weakness/drawbacks Risks and unknown X-ray Etiological diagnosis PEEP adjustment (recruitment) Detection of complications Available at bedside Poor sensitivity and specificity Large interobserver variability Radiation…
Direct Indirect Pulmonary infections Sepsis Inhalations Multiple trauma Pulmonary contusions Blood transfusion Aspiration Severe burns Mechanical ventilation Pancreatitis Major surgery Ischemia-reperfusion injury Significant overlap exists between the regulation of normal…
