Abstract We report the case of a 54-year-old man with right-lung pneumonia and contralateral pulmonary embolism (PE) conditioning severe refractory hypoxemia requiring veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Electrical impedance tomography (EIT)..
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Abstract The terms shunt, dead space, and ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) mismatch represent important concepts in pulmonary physiology, each indicating a distinct type of lung dysfunction that affects . This article provides an overview and explains these..
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Venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (vv-ECMO) has been classically employed as a rescue therapy for patients with respiratory failure not treatable with conventional mechanical ventilation alone. In recent years, however, the..
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