Can theoretical values for chest wall compliance be used in ards patients?
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Introduction To understand the impact of respiratory mechanics during mechanical ventilation, it is helpful to partition between the lungs and the chest wall. Esophageal pressure (Pes) is used to calculate chest wall compliance. However, esophageal pressure is not always used in the clinical arena. The value of chest wall compliance has been proposed to be estimated using 4% of the predicted value of vital capacity (VC) [1]. Objectives This study compared the difference between the predicted and the measured value of chest wall compliance in patients with ARDS.
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