Reducing Ventilator-associated Brain Injury by Diaphragm Neurostimulation: Racking the Diaphragm to Protect the Brain?

"Reducing Ventilator-associated Brain Injury by Diaphragm Neurostimulation: Racking the Diaphragm to Protect the Brain?." American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 204(12), pp. 1355–1357

Mechanical ventilation is of paramount importance in improving the survival of patients suffering from respiratory failure, as most recently confirmed by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. Notwithstanding, it is well established that mechanical ventilation has unfavorable effects, some of them being likely to worsen the prognosis of the primary disease, for which mechanical ventilation was indicated.