TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Lung Mechanics A1 - Pitts-Kiefer, Alex A1 - De Marchi, Lorenzo A2 - Freeman, Brian S. A2 - Berger, Jeffrey S. PY - 2014 T2 - Anesthesiology Core Review: Part One Basic Exam AB - Compliance is a mechanical property used to describe the elastic behavior of the lung, chest wall, or respiratory system as a whole. It is defined as a change in volume (ΔV) divided by the change in pressure (ΔP) needed to cause the change in volume, and can be expressed mathematically as: SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/07 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1102569046 ER -