Neuromechanical coupling during mechanical ventilation: reverse-triggering vs others forms of asynchrony

The term “respiratory entrainment” refers to of coupling patterns between the rhythm neuronal and mechanical of ventilator to achieve satisfactory synchrony. Respiratory effort stimulated by the mechanical inspiratory flow or reverse trigger (RT), has been recently demonstrated [1]. This asynchrony is difficult to showed without additional signals as esophageal pressure or electrodiaphragmatic signal.