Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Open Lung Strategy in Critically Ill Morbid Obese Patients Lung Imaging and Heart-lung Interaction
Brief Summary: The goal of this interventional crossover study in morbidly obese intubated and mechanically ventilated patients is to describe the respiratory mechanics and the heart-lung interaction at titrated positive end-expiratory pressure levels following a recruitment maneuver with transthoracic echocardiography and electric impedance tomography imaging.