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Upright position mechanical ventilation: An alternative strategy for ALI/ARDS patients
Medical Hypotheses, 08/19/09
Zhu M et al. – Improvement of V/Q matching, increased functional residual capacity, alveolar recruitment, accelerated diaphragm recovery, early gastric emptying and enteric feeding may be a potential protect mechanism of upright position ventilation. Whether this can be translated into improvement in patient outcome should be further tested in clinical trial.
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