Clinical review Positive end-expiratory pressure and cardiac output.docVIP

Available online /content/9/6/607 Review Clinical review: Positive end-expiratory pressure and cardiac output Thomas Luecke1 and Paolo Pelosi2 1Section Head, Critical Care, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University Hospital of Mannheim, Germany 2Associate Professor in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e Biologiche, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese, Italy Corresponding author: Thomas Luecke, thomas.luecke@anaes.ma.uni-heidelberg.de Published online: 18 October 2005 Critical Care 2005, 9:607-621 (DOI 10.1186/cc3877) This art