Near-Fatal Asthma

By Mark D. Siegel, MD, FCCP

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Figure 4. Drop in airway pressure across resistance. High peak airway pressures detected at the airway opening may greatly exceed those present in the distal airways and alveoli, due to pressure drops across areas of obstruction, decreasing in this example from 60 to 20 cm H₂O.

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