TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 10. Positive End-Expiratory Pressure A1 - Navalesi, Paolo A1 - Maggiore, Salvatore Maurizio A2 - Tobin, Martin J. Y1 - 2013 N1 - T2 - Principles and Practice of Mechanical Ventilation, 3e AB - Positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) is not a ventilator mode itself, but rather an adjunctive treatment that can be combined with all forms of mechanical ventilation, both controlled and assisted,1–7 or applied to spontaneous breathing throughout the entire respiratory cycle, so-called continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP).8–10 Following the pioneering work of Poulton and Oxon11 and Barach and associates12 who demonstrated in the mid-1930s that application of positive pressure to the airway can effectively treat patients with pulmonary edema, several pathological conditions were proved to benefit from PEEP, which is today considered by intensive care unit physicians as one of the most powerful treatments available for acute respiratory failure (ARF).13 SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57063741 ER -