Erschienen in:
15.03.2016 | What's New in Intensive Care
What’s new in mechanical ventilation in patients without ARDS: lessons from the ARDS literature
verfasst von:
Ary Serpa Neto, Samir Jaber
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 5/2016
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Excerpt
The incidence of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) varies greatly across the world [
1], and its impact on the outcome of critically ill patients remains significant [
1]. The publication of the ARMA trial [
2] demonstrated that a lung protective strategy of ventilation, using a tidal volume (
V T) of 6 ml/kg predicted body weight (PBW), decreased mortality in patients with ARDS, and led to the widespread, albeit not universal, use of lung protective strategies in this group of patients. …