Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 199-210 , June 2010

Perioperative tidal volume and intra-operative open lung strategy in healthy lungs: where are we going?

  • Beatrice Beck-Schimmer, MD (Professor of Anaesthesiology)

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Institute of Physiology and Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Institute of Anaesthesiology, Institute of Physiology and Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 100, Hof E 111, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 44 255 2696; Fax: +41 44 255 4409.
    • ,
  • Ralph C. Schimmer, MD, MBA (Professor of Experimental Surgery)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2010.02.005

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 199-210 , June 2010

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