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Regional Lung Function in Critically Ill Neonates: A New Perspective for Electrical Impedance Tomography

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Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

Part of the book series: Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine ((YEARBOOK,volume 2008))

Abstract

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is an emerging, radiation-free, medical imaging modality considered to become a bedside monitoring tool of regional lung function in intensive care patients [1]–[9]. This method could be used not only in adult but also in neonatal and pediatric patients. The perspective of EIT in the latter patient group is mainly based on: 1) the lack of information on regional lung function at the bedside; and 2) deficits in available diagnostic and monitoring techniques to provide this information. Bedside monitoring of regional lung function is needed because most critically ill neonates require either invasive or non-invasive ventilatory support, their lung tissue is immature and prone to development of irreversible damage and chronic lung disease, pathological processes in the lungs are not uniform, and therapeutic measures (e.g., surfactant or ventilator therapy) may exhibit regionally heterogeneous effects.

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Frerichs, I., Scholz, J., Weiler, N. (2008). Regional Lung Function in Critically Ill Neonates: A New Perspective for Electrical Impedance Tomography. In: Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 2008. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77290-3_21

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