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Elastic pressure-volume curves in acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome

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Jonson, B. (2006). Elastic pressure-volume curves in acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome. In: Applied Physiology in Intensive Care Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-37363-2_43

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