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Editorial
. 2020 Jul;46(7):1438-1440.
doi: 10.1007/s00134-020-06103-5. Epub 2020 May 25.

The baby lung and the COVID-19 era

Luciano Gattinoni  1 , Konrad Meissner  2 , John J Marini  3
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Editorial

The baby lung and the COVID-19 era

Luciano Gattinoni et al. Intensive Care Med. 2020 Jul.
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The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Fig. 1
Evolving concept of the “baby lung” of ARDS. Initial interpretation of the supine CT images suggested a fixed anatomical location (left panel). Subsequently, the shifting of the aerated compartment by prone repositioning demonstrated its lack of structurally fixed location, functional nature, and responsiveness to changes in transpulmonary pressure (middle panel). The vulnerability of aerated lung units to progressively concentrating power that injures and promotes dropout of lung units from the functional compartment over time is implicit in the current “dynamic” model of the shrinking baby lung (right panel)
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