A. Rossi

TL;DR: The prediction chart can function as a simple tool to predict the risk of failure of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation and thus improve clinical management of patients tailoring medical intervention.

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the studies on positive end-expiratory pressure, from the underlying physiological mechanism(s) to the clinical and therapeutic implications, through measurement and monitoring in the intensive care setting is provided.

TL;DR: These studies clearly indicate that in some centres there is an “overutilisation” of ICU resources for monitoring purposes, and that acute on chronic respiratory failure could be managed in many patients without invasive ventilation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the respiratory system is more fragile in the face of respiratory and systemic diseases than the respiratory systems of young adults, and that the aging lung is more convex to the volume axis at low lung volume.

TL;DR: Investigation of the effects of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) upon respiratory resistance during mechanical ventilation in 21 subjects anesthetized for surgery and in 11 patients with the adult respiratory distress syndrome found that expiratory resistances were significantly higher in the ARDS group than in the normal group.