Still no room to breathe: insights on supine lung mechanics from oscillometry in COPD

David A Kaminsky; Peter M A Calverley

doi:10.1183/23120541.00620-2024

Still no room to breathe: insights on supine lung mechanics from oscillometry in COPD

ERJ Open Res. 2024 Nov 25;10(6):00620-2024. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00620-2024. eCollection 2024 Nov.

Authors

David A Kaminsky¹, Peter M A Calverley²

Affiliations

¹ Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, USA.
² Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

Abstract

A study in ERJ Open Research documents the effects of supine posture on lung mechanics in patients with COPD. Specifically, it finds that hyperinflation is related to expiratory flow limitation and increased dynamic elastance. https://bit.ly/4eQG7G7.

Publication types

Editorial