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Right Ventricular Performance and Positive End-Expiratory Pressure Ventilation

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Book cover Shock and the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome

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It is now well recognized that the application of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) to the ventilation of patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) improves the arterial oxygen tension but may be associated with a fall in cardiac output, thus leading to the net effect of unchanged or even reduced systemic oxygen transport. However, the factors causing this decrease in cardiac output remain controversial (Craig et al. 1985).

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  1. Department of Anaesthesia, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 8RF, England

    Wolfgang Kox MD (Senior Lecturer, Honorary Consultant Anaesthetist (Director, Intensive Care Unit) (Senior Lecturer, Honorary Consultant Anaesthetist (Director, Intensive Care Unit)

  2. Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 8RF, England

    Wolfgang Kox MD (Senior Lecturer, Honorary Consultant Anaesthetist (Director, Intensive Care Unit) (Senior Lecturer, Honorary Consultant Anaesthetist (Director, Intensive Care Unit)

  3. Department of Medicine, The Middlesex Hospital Medical School, Mortimer Street, London, W1P 7PN, England

    David Bihari MA, MRCP (Lecturer in Medicine) (Lecturer in Medicine)

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Forst, H., Racenberg, J., Peter, K., Messmer, K. (1988). Right Ventricular Performance and Positive End-Expiratory Pressure Ventilation. In: Kox, W., Bihari, D. (eds) Shock and the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Current Concepts in Critical Care. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1443-7_8

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