Extremely high-pressure lung recruitment maneuver may be life saving in the most severe cases of acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome

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C Zigelman et al. Crit Care Med. 2004 Jun.

. 2004 Jun;32(6):1441-2; author reply 1442.

doi: 10.1097/01.ccm.0000124854.74177.2e.

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Effects of recruitment maneuvers in patients with acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome ventilated with high positive end-expiratory pressure.
Brower RG, Morris A, MacIntyre N, Matthay MA, Hayden D, Thompson T, Clemmer T, Lanken PN, Schoenfeld D; ARDS Clinical Trials Network, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health. Brower RG, et al. Crit Care Med. 2003 Nov;31(11):2592-7. doi: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000090001.91640.45. Crit Care Med. 2003. PMID: 14605529 Clinical Trial.
Are recruiting maneuvers needed when ventilating acute respiratory distress syndrome?
Marini JJ. Marini JJ. Crit Care Med. 2003 Nov;31(11):2701-3. doi: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000089941.42552.0A. Crit Care Med. 2003. PMID: 14605547 No abstract available.