Erschienen in:
01.04.2008 | Poster presentation
Is there a 'safe mean airways pressure' in preterm babies with hyaline membrane disease: an echocardiographic retrospective approach
verfasst von:
M Di Nardo, C Cecchetti, F Stoppa, D Perrotta, M Marano, C Tomasello, N Pirozzi
Erschienen in:
Critical Care
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Sonderheft 2/2008
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Excerpt
Airway pressure limitation is a largely accepted strategy in neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (NRDS), yet a lot of debate persists about the exact level of mean airways pressure (M-PAW) that can be safely used. The aim of the present study was to examine whether the echocardiographic evaluation of tricuspid regurgitation (TR) and right ventricular function (RVF) may help to indirectly solve this problem. …