Thoracic electrical impedance tomography in Chinese hospitals: a review of clinical research and daily applications

Chinese scientists and researchers have a long history with electrical impedance tomography (EIT), which can be dated back to the 1980s'. No commercial EIT devices for chest imaging were available until the year 2014 when the first device received its approval from the China Food and Drug Administration. Ever since then, clinical research and daily applications started in the Chinese hospitals. Up to date (2019.11) 47 hospitals were equipped with 50 EIT devices. Twenty-three SCI publications are recorded and further 21 clinical trials are registered. Thoracic EIT is mainly used in patients before or after surgery, or in intensive care units (ICU). Application fields include the development of strategies for protective lung ventilation (e.g. tidal volume and positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) titration, recruitment, choice of ventilation mode and weaning from ventilator), regional lung perfusion monitoring, perioperative monitoring, and potential feedback for rehabilitation. The main challenges for promoting clinical use of EIT are the financial cost and the education of personnel. In this review, the past, present and future of EIT in China are introduced and discussed.

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