Figure 2
From: New and conventional strategies for lung recruitment in acute respiratory distress syndrome
Percentage of change in static lung elastance (Est, L), oxygenation (PaO 2 ), fractional area of alveolar collapse (Coll) and hyperinflation (Hyp), and mRNA expression of type III procollagen (PCIII) from sustained inflation (SI) and sigh at different frequencies (10, 15 and 180 per hour) to non-recruited acute lung injury rats. Note that at low sigh frequency, oxygenation and lung elastance improved, followed by a reduction in alveolar collapse and PCIII. Adapted from [38].