Expiratory rib cage compressions to improve secretion clearance during mechanical ventilation: not only a matter of squeezing the chest

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Animal Experimentation Division Thorax Institute Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Spain and Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias Mallorca, Spain.
• ² Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Animal Experimentation Division Thorax Institute Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Spain.
• ³ Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Animal Experimentation Division Thorax Institute Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Spain and Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias Mallorca, Spain and Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer Barcelona, Spain.