Airway pressure reliably predicts intra-abdominal pressure during laparoscopic surgery
Pedro Ducatti de Oliveira e Silva, Renato Miranda de Melo, José Fernando Bastos Folgosi, Evandro Rocha Cândido, Roberta Martins Carlos Alves, Ênio Chaves de Oliveira · 2026
Read Airway pressure reliably predicts intra-abdominal pressure during laparoscopic surgery by Pedro Ducatti de Oliveira e Silva, Renato Miranda de Melo, José Fernando Bastos Folgosi, Evandro Rocha Cândido, Roberta Martins Carlos Alves, Ênio Chaves de Oliveira (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13309456.txt.
Description
Pedro Ducatti de Oliveira e Silva led a 2026 study in Brazil on reading belly pressure from airway pressure during keyhole gallbladder surgery. High belly pressure can harm patients, but the standard bladder method is awkward during surgery. Breathing pressures are already watched minute by minute, so a link between the two would help.
Healthy surgical patients had belly pressure raised in steps while peak and plateau airway pressures were recorded at each level. Statistical models then tested how closely the two pressures moved together and how well airway values flagged high belly pressure. Care was taken to size the study for a clear result. The authors frame airway pressure as a handy stand-in when direct checks are hard.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Pedro Ducatti de Oliveira e Silva, Renato Miranda de Melo, José Fernando Bastos Folgosi, Evandro Rocha Cândido, Roberta Martins Carlos Alves, Ênio Chaves de Oliveira |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25035 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |