Search Tag: Pulmonary ventilation

2024 16 Sep

  Mechanical ventilation is essential for managing acute respiratory failure but can cause ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI). VILI arises from four main mechanisms: alveolar over-distention (volutrauma), over-pressurisation (barotrauma), cyclic opening and collapse of alveoli (atelectotrauma), and inflammation (biotrauma), leading to alveolar...Read more