... (ARDS) alveolar recruitment end-expiratory lung volume prone position Prone positioning of patients with acute respiratory failure was first suggested over 30 years ago [ 1 ]. Although studies have repeatedly shown improvement in arterial oxygenation in approx. two-thirds of patients with ARDS...

...Jörg Reutershan; Andre Schmitt; Klaus Dietz; Klaus Unertl; Reinhold Fretschner Alveolar recruitment is one of the beneficial effects of prone positioning in patients with ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome). However, responses vary among patients and, therefore, we hypothesized that alveolar...

...) represents the fraction of pulmonary perfusion through ventilated lung spaces, which is equal to the cardiac output (CO) corrected for intrapulmonary shunt (Qs/Qt) (COeff). PBF is a crucial variable in critically ill patients with regard to efficacy of haemodynamic therapy, alveolar recruitment manoeuvres...