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Do you perform PEEP titration while patients are proned?

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Pulmonology · Cleveland Clinic
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Once a patient is proned- we don't use the PEEP: FIO2 ratio tables because you want to continue optimal recruitment. So we monitor driving pressures and maintain PEEP for optimal driving pressures. Also remember as the chest wall compliance decreases with proning, for a given plateau pressure, your ...

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