Major symptoms include difficulty in breathing and collapsed lungs, potentially requiring mechanical ventilation or positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP).
Positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) must be used in mechanically-ventilated patients in order to contrast the tendency to collapse of affected alveoli.
A breathing machine is used to deliver high doses of oxygen and a continuous level of pressure called PEEP (positive end-expiratory pressure) to the damaged lungs.
Mechanical ventilation and the application of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP)
No level of positive end-expiratory pressure was applied.
Once the high end-expiratory pressures are relieved, the cardiovascular complications reverse themselves.
Ventilator rate, oxygen levels, and positive end-expiratory pressure are decreased gradually over a period of 30 minutes to a few hours.
Slow alveoli are said to be 'kept open' using positive end-expiratory pressure, a feature of modern ventilators which maintains a positive airway pressure throughout the whole respiratory cycle.
Employment of certain measures such as Positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) and ventilation at higher-than-normal pressures may be helpful in maintaining adequate oxygenation.
PEEP - Positive end-expiratory pressure, pressure created by a backpressure valve.
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