When using a pressure-volume curve to identify optimal PEEP levels, what does the upper in-flection point represent?

a. Point of lung recruitment
b. Point of lung over distension
c. Optimal PEEP level
d. Optimal compliance level


ANS: B
The upper inflection point may indicate lung overdistention.

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