Spontaneous breathing, transpulmonary pressure and mathematical trickery

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany. gattinoniluciano@gmail.com.
² Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Regions Hospital and University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
⁴ Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, San Paolo University Hospital, Milan, Italy.
⁵ Department of Adult Critical Care, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, and Centre of Human Applied Physiological Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.

Luciano Gattinoni et al. Ann Intensive Care. 2020.

. 2020 Jul 8;10(1):88.

doi: 10.1186/s13613-020-00708-1.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany. gattinoniluciano@gmail.com.
² Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Regions Hospital and University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
⁴ Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, San Paolo University Hospital, Milan, Italy.
⁵ Department of Adult Critical Care, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, and Centre of Human Applied Physiological Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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