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Fig. 4

From: Changes in ventilation distribution during general anesthesia measured with EIT in mechanically ventilated small children

Fig. 4

Exemplary representation of the EELV reduction at the different ventilation mode transitions. Orange: reduction in EELV; blue: increase in EELV; black: no change. Changing the mode of ventilation from PCV to PSV (left) shows only a small reduction of EELV which is mostly distributed in the ventral lung areas. After termination of mechanical ventilation (PSV to SB, right), the reduction is much more pronounced and distributed more evenly in both lung regions. The ventral portion decreases in favor of the dorsal by 9.9 percentage points

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BMC Anesthesiology

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