Journal article
Hemodynamic and Myocardial Metabolic Consequences of PEEP
Abstract
The cardiac effects of positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) were examined in 50 patients six hours after elective coronary bypass surgery. Increasing the level of PEEP from 5 to 10 to 15 cm H2O decreased cardiac index (evaluated by thermodilution), stroke index and left ventricular end diastolic volume index without a change in left ventricular ejection fraction (evaluated by nuclear ventriculography). Right ventricular end diastolic volume …
Authors
Tittley JG; Fremes SE; Weisel RD; Christakis GT; Evans PJ; Madonik MM; Ivanov J; Teasdale SJ; Mickle DAG; McLaughlin PR
Journal
CHEST Journal, Vol. 88, No. 4, pp. 496–502
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
October 1985
DOI
10.1378/chest.88.4.496
ISSN
0012-3692