Driving pressure and respiratory mechanics in ARDS

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¹ From the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Harvard Medical School - both in Boston (S.H.L.); and the Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla (A.M.).

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Stephen H Loring et al. N Engl J Med. 2015.

. 2015 Feb 19;372(8):776-7.

doi: 10.1056/NEJMe1414218.

¹ From the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Harvard Medical School - both in Boston (S.H.L.); and the Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla (A.M.).

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Driving pressure and survival in the acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Amato MB, Meade MO, Slutsky AS, Brochard L, Costa EL, Schoenfeld DA, Stewart TE, Briel M, Talmor D, Mercat A, Richard JC, Carvalho CR, Brower RG. Amato MB, et al. N Engl J Med. 2015 Feb 19;372(8):747-55. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa1410639. N Engl J Med. 2015. PMID: 25693014

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