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 …

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

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has been intensively and continuously studied
in various settings, but its mortality is still as high as 30–40%. For the last 20 years, lung …

Mechanical ventilation practices in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
have progressed with a growing understanding of the disease pathophysiology. Paramount …

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 …

The traditional practice of using high inflation pressures to maintain normal tidal volumes
and arterial blood gases has been encouraged by the perception of uniformly distributed …

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is characterised by different degrees of severity
and different stages. Understanding these differences can help to better adapt the ventilatory …

To minimize ventilator-induced lung injury, attention should be directed toward avoidance of
alveolar over-distention and cyclical opening and closure of alveoli. The most impressive …

Physiologic rationale for ventilator setting in acute lung i... : Critical Care Medicine Physiologic
rationale for ventilator setting in acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome patients …

The passage of 30 years since the initial description of the acute respiratory distress
syndrome (ARDS) has brought substantial insight into its epidemiology and …