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ReviewAnnals of translational medicine2018

The basics of respiratory mechanics: ventilator-derived parameters.

Pedro Leme Silva, Patricia R M Rocco

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Review in Annals of translational medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Pedro Leme SilvaLaboratory of Pulmonary Investigation, Carlos Chagas Filho Institute of Biophysics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Patricia R M RoccoLaboratory of Pulmonary Investigation, Carlos Chagas Filho Institute of Biophysics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mechanical ventilation is a life-support system used to maintain adequate lung function in patients who are critically ill or undergoing general anesthesia. The benefits and harms of mechanical ventilation depend not only on the operator's setting of the machine (input), but also on their interpretation of ventilator-derived parameters (outputs), which should guide ventilator strategies. Once the inputs-tidal volume (V

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driving pressureinspiratory flowmechanical energymechanical powerMechanical ventilationplateau pressurepositive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP)respiratory ratetidal volumetranspulmonary pressure

Identifiers

PMID30460250
PMCPMC6212352

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