Respiratory failure & ventilation
Regional ventilation in spontaneously breathing COVID‐19 patients during postural maneuvers assessed by electrical impedance tomography
Authors' conclusion
Distribution of ventilation and response to lateral positioning is variable and thus unpredictable in spontaneously breathing patients with coronavirus disease 2019.
Study context
- Population
- Spontaneously breathing patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure due to coronavirus disease, and healthy volunteers
- Participants
- 12 vs 10
- Exposure
- Patients vs Healthy volunteers
- Patientsn = 12
- Healthy volunteersn = 10reference
- Outcome
- Distribution of ventilation measured by electrical impedance tomography in supine, left and right lateral positions
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Distribution of ventilation by electrical impedance tomography during postural maneuvers
- Patients with coronavirus disease showed a variety of ventilation patterns, not predictable
- All but one healthy volunteer showed a typical, expected gravity-dependent distribution of ventilation
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Regional ventilation in spontaneously breathing COVID‐19 patients during postural maneuvers assessed by electrical impedance tomography. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. Published 3 November 2022. doi:10.
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