Recent recognition that artificial ventilation may cause damage to the acutely injured lung
has caused renewed interest in ventilation techniques that minimise this potential harm …

Gentle lung ventilation must be standard practice. Because stress and strain are the triggers
of ventilator-induced lung injury, their clinical equivalents should be measured …

A large body of experimental and clinical work leaves no room for doubt that mechanical
ventilation can contribute to the progression of a lung disease or, in the worst case, produce …

If one of the essential teachings to young intensivists in the 1980s was to ensure mechanical
ventilation restored being able to immediately drain a pneumothorax (barotrauma) …

Despite recent advances in intensive care medicine, acute lung injury and its more severe
form, acute respiratory distress syndrome pose major therapeutic problems. While …

Objectives To review the challenges of providing mechanical ventilatory support for
respiratory failure while avoiding ventilator-associated lung injury in patients with acute lung …

Essentially all patients with acute lung injury (ALI) or acute respiratory distress syndrome
(ARDS) require mechanical ventilatory assistance to support gas exchange and reduce the …

Mechanical ventilation with high tidal volumes (VT) has been common practice in operating
theatres because this strategy recruits collapsed lung tissue and improves ventilation …

The fact that mechanical ventilation can support the failing lung and amplify its injury (see
Jeremy R. Beitler, Atul Malhotra, B. Taylor Thompson's article “Ventilator-Induced Lung …

This review addresses the physiological background and the current status of evidence
regarding ventilator‐induced lung injury and lung protective strategies. Lung protective …