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Respiratory compliance but not gas exchange correlates with changes in lung aeration after a recruitment maneuver: an experimental study in pigs with saline lavage lung injury

Dietrich Henzler1*, Paolo Pelosi2, Rolf Dembinski3, Annette Ullmann4, Andreas H Mahnken5, Rolf Rossaint6 and Ralf Kuhlen7

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1 Senior Anesthesiologist, Anesthesiology Department, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany

2 Professor of Anesthesiology, Environment, Health and Safety Department, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

3 Intensivist, Surgical Intensive Care Department, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany

4 Resident, Anesthesiology Department, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany

5 Department of Clinical Radiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany

6 Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology Department, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany

7 Head, Surgical Intensive Care Department, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany

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Critical Care 2005, 9:R471-R482 doi:10.1186/cc3772

Published: 13 July 2005

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