This multidisciplinary conference attracts pulmonary and critical care clinicians from around the world. Liz Rohrs presented her preclinical work, which concluded that ventilation in four paced animals showed a greater posterior distribution of ventilation during paced breaths than four control animals (p < 0.001). PaO2/FiO2 ratios significantly worsened (p = 0.04) over 50 hours of mechanical ventilation in the control subjects, whereas the experimental subjects had no significant change.
- Significant Redistribution of Tidal Volume to Posterior Lung Regions During Phrenic Nerve Stimulation Breaths, Rohrs, E., et al.
