Oesophageal pressure as a surrogate of pleural pressure in mechanically ventilated patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Oesophageal pressure (P _oes) is used to approximate pleural pressure (P _pl) and therefore to estimate transpulmonary pressure (P _L). We aimed to compare oesophageal and regional pleural pressures and to calculate transpulmonary pressures in a prospective physiological study on lung transplant recipients during their stay in the intensive care unit of a tertiary university hospital.

Methods

Lung transplant recipients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation and monitored by oesophageal manometry and dependent and nondependent pleural catheters were investigated during the post-operative period. We performed simultaneous short-time measurements and recordings of oesophageal manometry and pleural pressures. Expir

SUBMITTER: Tilmont A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7938048 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature