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Editorial
. 2016 Dec;8(12):E1661-E1664.
doi: 10.21037/jtd.2016.12.101.

Detection of patient-ventilator asynchrony should be improved: and then what?

Hermann Wrigge  1 , Felix Girrbach  1 , Gunther Hempel  1
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Editorial

Detection of patient-ventilator asynchrony should be improved: and then what?

Hermann Wrigge et al. J Thorac Dis. 2016 Dec.
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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: H Wrigge received research funding, lecture fees, and technical support from Dräger Medical, Lübeck, Germany; funding from Pfizer (Investigator Initiated Trial Program), Berlin, Germany; funding and lecture fees from InfectoPharm, Heppenheim, Germany; lecture fees from GE Healthcare, Freiburg, Germany, lecture fees from Maquet, Rastatt, Germany; lecture fees from MSD, Konstanz, Germany; and technical support from Swisstom Corp., Landquart, Switzerland. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Electric impedance tomography images of an obese patient breathing spontaneously (A) and after intubation, neuro-muscular blockade and volume-controlled ventilation with positive end-expiratory pressure of 5 mbar (B). Note the shift of impedance changes representing regional ventilation to the non-dependent lung with institution of mechanical ventilation representing atelectasis in the dependent lung.
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