Barotrauma.

Abstract

Barotrauma remains a significant complication of mechanical ventilation, particularly in ARDS. A number of alternative techniques for mechanical ventilation are being investigated with the purpose of minimizing ventilator-related lung injury and air leak phenomena while maintaining adequate oxygenation. Among them pressure-controlled inverse-ratio ventilation and extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal have not resulted in a definite reduction of barotrauma thus far. The radiologist plays an important role in the early recognition of barotrauma and may assist in the treatment of its sequelae.

• Authors: I Tocino, J L Westcott
• Journal: Radiologic clinics of North America (Radiol Clin North Am) Vol. 34 Issue 1 Pg. 59-81 (Jan 1996) ISSN: 0033-8389 [Print] United States
• PMID: 8539354 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)

Topics

• Barotrauma (diagnosis, etiology)
• Female
• Humans
• Intensive Care Units
• Lung (pathology)
• Lung Injury
• Male
• Mediastinal Emphysema (diagnosis, etiology)
• Pneumopericardium (diagnosis, etiology)
• Pneumoperitoneum (diagnosis, etiology)
• Pneumothorax (diagnosis, etiology)
• Pulmonary Edema (diagnosis, etiology)
• Respiration, Artificial (adverse effects)
• Retropneumoperitoneum (diagnosis, etiology)