Critical Care Medicine

New critical care medicine findings from University of Bonn described

Published in Medical Imaging Business Week, April 17th, 2008

In this recently published study, investigators in Bonn, Germany conducted a study "To determine the validity of functional electric impedance tomography to monitor regional ventilation distribution in experimental acute lung injury, and to develop a simple electric impedance tomography index detecting alveolar recruitment. Randomized prospective experimental study. Academic research laboratory."

"Sixteen anesthetized, tracheotomized, and mechanically ventilated pigs. Acute lung injury was induced either by acid aspiration (direct acute king injury) or by abdominal hypertension plus oleic acid injection (indirect acute lung injury) in ten pigs. Six pigs with normal...

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Source: Medical Imaging Business Week (2008-04-17)

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