Reply to Mezidi et al.: Assessment of Airway Closure and Expiratory Airflow Limitation to Set Positive End-Expiratory Pressure in Morbidly Obese Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2021 Feb 1;203(3):392-394. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202009-3641LE.

Authors

Aditi Balakrishna^{1

2}, Raffaele Di Fenza^{1

2}, Caio C A Morais¹, David A Imber^{1

2}, Pankaj Arora³, Robert M Kacmarek^{1

2}, Roberta De Santis Santiago¹, Lorenzo Berra¹

Affiliations

¹ Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, Massachusetts.
² Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts and.
³ University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama.

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Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Hemodynamics
Humans
Obesity, Morbid* / complications
Positive-Pressure Respiration
Pulmonary Ventilation
Respiratory Distress Syndrome* / therapy