Reading Time: 2 minutes The Pre-brief This is the first lecture of the series on respiratory mechanics presented to the Critical Care Medicine fellows…
respiratory mechanics
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Read this weekly review for some spaced repetition of the past week’s content.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Learn about the physiological effects of obesity on fundamental lung mechanics.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Waveform interpretation is a skill similar to EKG analysis and requires experience and practice. Learn about some advanced ventilation waveform interpretation in this post!
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Reading Time: 4 minutes The equation of motion is a mathematical description of the forces that drive ventilation, and the way these forces are spent in doing so. For the uninitiated reader, this may sound a bit esoteric with little clinical relevance, but nothing could be further from the truth.