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Figure 3

From: Benefits and risks of manual hyperinflation in intubated and mechanically ventilated intensive care unit patients: a systematic review

Figure 3

Change in pulmonary compliance. The studies compared manual hyperinflation (A) with standard care (B), or manual hyperinflation (C) with other strategies (D), in patients after cardiac surgery [21, 22, 28] (preprocedure data were not reported in [21]), unselected intensive care unit patients [26, 29–31], patients with pneumonia [25], patients with atelectasis [27], and patients with acute lung injury [20, 33]. *P < 0.05; **P < 0.001.

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