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SUBMITTER: Gayen S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9800186 | biostudies-literature | 2023
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gayen Shameek S van der Rijst Nathalie N D'Alonzo Gilbert G Salerno Daniel D
Respiratory medicine case reports 20221223
Understanding of pulmonary mechanics is essential to understanding mechanical ventilation. Typically, clinicians are mindful of peak and plateau pressures displayed on the ventilator and lung compliance, which is decreased in lung disease such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Decreased lung compliance leads to elevated peak and plateau pressures. We present a patient with IPF undergoing mechanical ventilation after cardiac arrest. Despite low lung compliance, he had normal peak and platea ...[more]