Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The LEO wearable sensor platform collects and analyzes respiratory data. Respiratory flow and tidal volume ...

WHEN a patient is unable to breathe by himself, the single most important responsibility of the physician is to provide adequate ventilation of the lungs. Artificial respiration during anesthesia may ...

March 5, 2004 — Overweight and obese patients with acute lung injury benefit from low tidal volumes similar to those used in patients of normal weight, according to the results of a secondary analysis ...

The chief reason that patients are admitted to an intensive care unit is to receive ventilatory support. In this article, I update the basic principles of mechanical ventilation, which I reviewed in ...

We assess the performance of the respiratory system by measuring how much air is inspired or expired each minute. This is called minute ventilation. To calculate minute ventilation, we also need to ...

Tidal volume is the amount of air breathed in with each normal breath. The average tidal volume is 0.5 litres (500 ml). Inspiratory reserve volume is the maximum amount of additional air that can be ...