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Editorial
. 2007 Mar;131(3):646-8.
doi: 10.1378/chest.06-2782.

Inspiratory efforts during mechanical ventilation: is there risk of barotrauma?

Stephen H Loring, Atul Malhotra
Editorial

Inspiratory efforts during mechanical ventilation: is there risk of barotrauma?

Stephen H Loring et al. Chest. 2007 Mar.
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Figure 1
Elastic recoil pressure of the lung and relaxed chest wall and the Pmus-max from residual volume to TLC. At resting end-exhalation (ie, functional residual capacity (FRC), the elastic recoil pressures of the lung and chest wall are equal and opposite. Near TLC, Pmus-max diminishes very rapidly with increasing volume, largely determining the upper limit of the lung volume.
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