Open AccessEFFECTS OF POSITIVE END-EXPIRATORY PRESSURE IN AN EXPERIMENTAL MODEL OF ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCT IN WISTAR RATS
Author(s) -
Deborah C. Hizume,
Dolores Helena Rodriguez Ferreira Rivero,
David I. Kasahara,
Adriana S. Leme,
Fernanda Magalhâes Arantes-Costa,
Clarice Rosa Olivo,
Priscila Sales,
Marisa Dolhnikoff,
Mílton A. Martins
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.095
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1540-0514
pISSN - 1073-2322
DOI - 10.1097/01.shk.0000248594.79012.d6
Subject(s) - medicine , myocardial infarction , positive end expiratory pressure , cardiology , mechanical ventilation , anesthesia , ventilation (architecture) , lung , mechanical engineering , engineering
Our purpose in this study was to access the pulmonary effects of mechanical ventilation with positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP; 10 cmH2O) or without PEEP (zero PEEP-ZEEP) in a rat model of acute myocardial infarction that resulted in hypotension but not in pulmonary congestion.