Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The diaphragm, the principal muscle of the inspiratory pump, is part of a group of respiratory muscles responsible for ensuring alveolar ventilation to meet metabolic demands. In patients requiring mechanical ventilatory assistance, multiple factors contribute to its alteration and condition its performance during different stages. Some of the situations that determine its alteration are related to excessive unloading or insufficient assistance, secondary to the programming of ventilatory parameters; in both cases resulting in harmful changes to its structure and function.
Author: Gallardo Adrián
Language: English
Subfield: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4413059148