Mechanical Pulmonary Ventilation at High Airway Pressures: Is it Safe?

Extracorporeal support for respiratory insufficiency. Report of a collaborative study. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Division of Lung Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, 1979.

Gattinoni L. , Pesenti A. , Kolobow T. , Damia G. : A new look at therapy of the adult respiratory distress syndrome. Int. Anesthesiol. Clin. 21(2): 97–117, 1983.

Kolobow T. , Solca M. , Gattinoni L. , Pesenti A. : Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS): Why did ECMO fail? Internat. J. of Aritf. Organs 4: 59, 1981.

Greenfield L.J. , Ebert P.A. , Benson D.W. : Effect of positive pressure ventilation on surface tension properties of lung extracts. Anesthesiology 25: 312–316, 1964.

Barsch J. , Birbara C. , Eggers G.W.N. , Krumlofsky F. , Siant Y.W. , Smith W. , Smith R. , Webster J. : Positive pressure as cause of respirator induced lung disease. Ann. Int. Med. (abstract) 72: 810, 1970.

Kolobow T. , Moretti M.P. , Fumagalli R. , Mascheroni D. , Prato P. , Chen V. , Joris M. : Severe impairment of lung function from mechanical pulmonary ventilator at high airway pressures. An. experimental study. Am. Rev. Resp. Diseases, submitted for publication.

Kolobow T. , Fumagalli R. , Arosio P. , Chen V. , Buckhold D.K. , Pierce J.E. : The use of the extracorporeal membrane lung in the successful resuscitation of severely hypoxic and hypercapnic fetal lambs. Trans. Am. Soc. Artif. Intern. Organs 28: 365, 1982.