Sorry mate, can't all be academics like yourselfInteresting (but learn to proof read you knob ). I've never heard of the whole bronchospasmic auto-peep thing, and not yet (in my many long years in ambulance) encountered the implications of getting rid of it. Is there more info on it kicking around?
Mostly we see auto PEEP in COPD'ers, in this case it is achieved by their pursed lip breathing, but you may already know it as intrinsic PEEP.
You'll know it when you give salbutamol and the auto PEEP is what was keeping them going, they get crook really quick :wacko:
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