PEEP:

Terms Related to PEEP

• Residual Volume

  The volume of air remaining in the lungs at the end of a maximal expiration. Common abbreviation is RV.

• Functional Residual Capacity

  The volume of air remaining in the lungs at the end of a normal, quiet expiration. It is the sum of the residual volume and ...

• Mechanical Ventilator Weaning

  Techniques for effecting the transition of the respiratory-failure patient from mechanical ventilation to spontaneous ventilation, while meeting the criteria that tidal volume be above a ...

• Extra Vascular Lung Water

  Water present within the lungs; its volume is roughly equal to, or a little less than, the intracellular blood volume of the lungs. Accumulations of ...