Nonassociative learning promotes respiratory entrainment to mechanical ventilation.

Patient-ventilator synchrony is a major concern in critical care and is influenced by phasic lung-volume feedback control of the respiratory rhythm. Routine clinical application of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) introduces a tonic input which, if unopposed, might disrupt respiratory-ventila...

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Main Authors: Shawna M MacDonald, Gang Song, Chi-Sang Poon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-09-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1959120?pdf=render