[Mean airway pressure during pressure-controlled ventilation with static vs. dynamic positive end-expiratory pressure].

Background: Positive end-expiratory pressure increases mean airway pressure (Paw) in patients with mechanical ventilation. We undertook this study to compare mean airway pressure (Paw) generated with static PEEP (sPEEP) vs. dynamic PEEP (dPEEP) at the same level of total PEEP (tPEEP) in the same patient with pressure-controlled mechanical ventilation (PC).