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Airway Pressure Release Ventilation: Promises and Potentials for Concern

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Intensive Care Medicine

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Mechanical ventilation is one of the most common interventions used in the intensive care unit (ICU); it is a life-saving procedure and a cornerstone in supporting a wide variety of patients from those going through elective surgery procedures to patients with life-threatening processes such as severe sepsis or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) [1]. Initially conceived as supportive treatment for patients with complications of poliomyelitis but without parenchymal lung disease, positive-pressure mechanical ventilation has evolved over the years due to our expanding knowledge of respiratory physiology, and to advances in ventilator design which allow faster responses to the requirements of each patient.

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  1. Department of Critical Care, Toronto Western Hospital, 399 Bathurst Street, F2-150, Toronto, ON, M5T 2S8, Canada

    J. Gutiérrez Mejía & N. D. Ferguson

  2. Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1830 East Monument Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA

    E. Fan

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    Jean-Louis Vincent MD, PhD, FCCM, FCCP (Head) (Head)

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Gutiérrez Mejía, J., Fan, E., Ferguson, N.D. (2008). Airway Pressure Release Ventilation: Promises and Potentials for Concern. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Intensive Care Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77383-4_28

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