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From: From pressure to tension: a model of damaging inflation stress

Fig. 1

Damaging tidal energy (crosshatched area), as determined by an elastic pressure x volume area and demarcated by an elastic alveolar pressure threshold. Energy delivered at alveolar pressures above a pressure threshold potentially contributes to injury. PD = peak airway pressure; Pres = non-conserved pressure dissipated through dynamic resistance; PPlat = end-inspiratory elastic alveolar pressure; Pt = threshold pressure; DP = driving pressure

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