Challenge on MV: a patient with ARF monitored with electrical impedance tomography
By: Marcelo Alcantara, Médico - 12/15/2018 05:08
- Woman 53 yo, acute hypoxemic respiratory failure
- She was intubated for hemoptysis, severe hypoxemia and resp. muscles fatigue with a clinical suspicion of alveolar hemorrhage
- See below her chest x-ray after 48-72h of MV.
- PaO2 85mmHg, FIO2 60%, PEEP 16cmH2O
- pH 7.37 PaCO2 79mmHg BE 17 VT 6ml/kg IBW
- She was monitored with electrical impedance tomography (EIT)
- How would you interpret the EIT findings?
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