Accuracy of automatic tube compensation in new-generation mechanical ventilators*

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S Elsässer · Ammann (Switzerland)

Josef Guttmann

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Flow-adapted tube compensation by the original ATC system significantly reduced tube-related inspiratory and expiratory work of breathing. The commercially available ATC modes investigated here may be adequate for inspiratory but probably not for expiratory tube compensation.

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Respiratory Support and Mechanisms Airway Management and Intubation Techniques Nosocomial Infections in ICU

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Published in: Critical Care Medicine

Volume 31, Issue 11, pp. 2619-2626

DOI: 10.1097/01.ccm.0000094224.78718.2a

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Accuracy of automatic tube compensation in new-generation mechanical ventilators*

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