“ What’s highly significant here is that there should be almost unanimous opinion on these topics as we have guidelines for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) treatment. What we are seeing is ...

Most patients requiring mechanical ventilation for acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) receive positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) of 5 to 12 cm of water. Higher ...

Since the advent of invasive positive pressure ventilation, intensivists have been arguing over how to optimize settings. For patients with moderate to- severe acute respiratory distress syndrome ...

In 1967, Ashbaugh et al. 1 introduced the use of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) during mechanical ventilation to treat refractory hypoxemia in patients with the acute respiratory distress ...

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has strained medical resources in countries across the world. Early data from Wuhan, China, show that more than a third of patients with this infection (41.3% ...