From the Pulmonary Engineering Group (PMS, AG, AB, NC, TN, AK, IR, SS, TK, MGdA), Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Therapy, University Hospital, Dresden, Germany; Postgraduate Electrical Engineering Program (AB), Federal University of Pará, Pará, Brazil; Department of Anesthesiology (SCT, KE), University Hospital, Mainz, Germany; Institute of Anatomy (MK), University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany; and Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics (PP), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
*See also p. 2725.
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Drs. Spieth, Güldner, and Beda equally contributed to this manuscript.
This work was supported, in part, by a research grant of the Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University of Dresden, Germany (MeDDrive Programme).
Drs. Gama de Abreu, Spieth, and Koch were granted a patent on the variable pressure support ventilation mode of assisted ventilation (noisy PSV), which has been licensed to Dräger Medical AG (Lübeck, Germany).The remaining authors have not disclosed any potential conflicts of interest.
Address requests for reprints to: Marcelo Gama de Abreu, MD, PhD, Pulmonary Engineering Group, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Fetscherstr. 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]
