Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) has recently been introduced as a bedside radiation-free monitoring of ventilation distribution. It provides dynamic informations about aeration, regional ventilation, compliance and heterogeneity of the lung. Nowaday, EIT may be used to monitor regional ventilation in mechanically ventilated and spontaneously breathing patients affected by acute or chronic lung diseases and to optimize ventilator setting as, for instance, positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) titration and estimation of lung recruitability and overdistension. EIT images associated with clinical practice may help physician to tailor their treatment on the individual patient, optimizing medical practice in order to prevent worse outcomes as ventilation lung injury.
Measures by Electrical Impedance Tomography
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Writing – Original Draft Preparation
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Writing – Original Draft Preparation
2019
Abstract
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) has recently been introduced as a bedside radiation-free monitoring of ventilation distribution. It provides dynamic informations about aeration, regional ventilation, compliance and heterogeneity of the lung. Nowaday, EIT may be used to monitor regional ventilation in mechanically ventilated and spontaneously breathing patients affected by acute or chronic lung diseases and to optimize ventilator setting as, for instance, positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) titration and estimation of lung recruitability and overdistension. EIT images associated with clinical practice may help physician to tailor their treatment on the individual patient, optimizing medical practice in order to prevent worse outcomes as ventilation lung injury.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
