Positive end-expiratory pressure: advantages and disadvantages
Cardiac and General Anesthesiology
AUGUST 3, 2022
All modes will require setting positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP ). PEEP represents the lowest airway pressure that the lung will be allowed to fall to on end exhalation. It is commonly misunderstood as pushing air back into the lung on exhalation, when in fact it is more akin to providing a bottom limit to the decline in airway pressure. PEEP allows more alveoli to remain open at the end of a breath.
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