RT Book, Section
A1 Navalesi, Paolo
A1 Maggiore, Salvatore Maurizio
A2 Tobin, Martin J.
SR Print(0)
ID 57063741
T1 Chapter 10. Positive End-Expiratory Pressure
T2 Principles and Practice of Mechanical Ventilation, 3e
YR 2013
FD 2013
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-173626-8
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57063741
RD 2024/04/20
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