A Step Forward toward a Bedside and Timely Monitoring of Regional (V)overdot/(Q)overdot Matching

Abstrakt

In this issue of the Journal, He and colleagues (pp. 1464-1467) described EIT regional ventilation and perfusion measures that were able to distinguish patients with acute PE from other patients with other types of acute respiratory failure.

Klíčová slova

• electrical-impedance tomography
• pulmonary blood-flow
• lung ventilation
• perfusion
• determinants