Across
- 4. increases airway pressure
- 6. marker of lung stress
- 8. reduced airway diameter will increase this
- 10. air breathed per minute
- 12. caused by poor elastic recoil
- 13. a control variable
- 14. cyclic opening and closing
- 15. rationale for lung protective ventilation
Down
- 1. variable used to initiate expiration
- 2. may cause increased peak inspiratory pressure
- 3. augments spontaneous tidal volume
- 5. high peak inspiratory pressure
- 7. when gas flow ceases
- 9. may cause MODS
- 11. initiation of inspiration