Fundamental Medical and Engineering Investigations on Protective Artificial Respiration

Wolfgang Schröder ist Leitender Oberarzt an der Chirurgischen Universitätsklinik Köln. Er ist Mitglied im Präsidium des Berufsverbands der Chirurgen (BDC), leitet die Weiter- und Fortbildungsakademie des BDC.

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Respiratory System.- Analysis of the Flow in Dynamically Changing Central Airways.- Cell Physiology and Fluid Mechanics in the Pulmonary Alveolus and its Capillaries.- Experimental and numerical investigation on the flow-induced stresses on the alveolar-epithelial-surfactant-air interface.- Fluid mechanical equilibrium processes in a multi-bifurcation model.- In vivo microscopy and analysis of regional ventilation in a porcine model of acute lung injury.- Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computational Fluid Dynamics of High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV).- The effect of unsteadiness on particle reposition in human upper and lung airways.- Transport at air-liquid bridges under high-frequency ventilation.