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Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo San Paolo University Hospital Milan
Department of Health Sciences University of Milan Italy
Critical asthma is relatively uncommon, with its incidence on the decline; however, it can require intensive care, including mechanical ventilation. This article provides an overview of critical asthma management. Critical asthma (CA) is an umbrella term embracing different definitions, all referring to an acute asthma exacerbation that can rapidly deteriorate into respiratory failure,...
READ MOREMechanical power is an easy bedside tool to guide lung protective ventilation, as it is an index of the energy load applied to the lung during mechanical ventilation and expresses in one formula all the main determinants of ventilator-induced lung injury. Although a threshold value has not already been defined, a mechanical power greater than 17 J/min has been demonstrated to be associated with...
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