After risk adjustment, overweight and obese patients with acute lung injury have outcomes similar to those of patients with normal BMI.

Overestimating stress and delivering too low of a tidal volume may lead to carbon dioxide build-up in the blood and atelectasis-lung tissue collapse.

Low-tidal-volume lung-protective ventilation during major abdominal surgery may reduce postoperative complications, according to a multicenter, double-blind, parallel-group randomized controlled ...

Ventilation with Lower Tidal Volumes as Compared with Traditional Tidal Volumes for Acute Lung Injury Published September 14, 2000 N Engl J Med 2000;343: 812 - 814 DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200009143431113 ...

According to researchers at the University of Vermont it was found that artificial ventilation should maintain a balance between over inflation and under inflation of the lungs.

Expiratory reserve volume (EPV) is the amount of extra air — above normal (tidal) volume — exhaled during a forceful breath out. You doctor will measure your EPV and other pulmonary functions ...

Effect of tidal volume on extravascular lung water content during one-lung ventilation for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a randomised, controlled trial.

We investigated the effects of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) and tidal volume (V T) on lung aeration, pulmonary mechanics, and the distribution of ventilation immediately after birth ...

Minute ventilation (VE) is the total volume of air entering the lungs in a minute. The average minute ventilation is 6 litres per minute. Minute ventilation = breathing rate × tidal volume VE ...

Infants actively regulate their lung function, elevating lung volume above what would be expected by their relatively stiff lung tissue and floppy chest wall compared to adults.

Lung volumes and exercise Tidal volume is the amount of air breathed in with each normal breath. The average tidal volume is 0.5 litres (500 ml).