Expiratory rib cage compressions to improve secretion clearance during mechanical ventilation: not only a matter of squeezing the chest

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Animal Experimentation Division Thorax Institute Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Spain and Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias Mallorca, Spain.
² Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Animal Experimentation Division Thorax Institute Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Spain.
³ Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Animal Experimentation Division Thorax Institute Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Spain and Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias Mallorca, Spain and Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer Barcelona, Spain.

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Joan-Daniel Martí et al. Respir Care. 2014 Aug.

. 2014 Aug;59(8):e119-20.

doi: 10.4187/respcare.03109.

¹ Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Animal Experimentation Division Thorax Institute Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Spain and Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias Mallorca, Spain.
² Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Animal Experimentation Division Thorax Institute Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Spain.
³ Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Animal Experimentation Division Thorax Institute Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Spain and Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias Mallorca, Spain and Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer Barcelona, Spain.

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Expiratory rib cage compressions to improve secretion clearance during mechanical ventilation: not only a matter of squeezing the chest-reply.
Guimarães FS, Silveira de Menezes SL, Lopes AJ. Guimarães FS, et al. Respir Care. 2014 Aug;59(8):e121. doi: 10.4187/respcare.03522. Respir Care. 2014. PMID: 25233524 No abstract available.

Expiratory rib cage Compression in mechanically ventilated subjects: a randomized crossover trial [corrected].
Guimarães FS, Lopes AJ, Constantino SS, Lima JC, Canuto P, de Menezes SL. Guimarães FS, et al. Respir Care. 2014 May;59(5):678-85. doi: 10.4187/respcare.02587. Epub 2013 Oct 8. Respir Care. 2014. PMID: 24106324 Clinical Trial.