Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Increase the Positive End-Expiratory Pressure?

Andrew C McKown¹, Lorraine B Ware^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ 1 Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Nashville, Tennessee and.
² 2 Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Nashville, Tennessee.

Editorial

Andrew C McKown et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2018.

. 2018 Jul 1;198(1):7-9.

doi: 10.1164/rccm.201802-0266ED.

Andrew C McKown¹, Lorraine B Ware^{1

2}

¹ 1 Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Nashville, Tennessee and.
² 2 Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Nashville, Tennessee.

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Comment on

Positive End-Expiratory Pressure Lower Than the ARDS Network Protocol Is Associated with Higher Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Mortality.
Khemani RG, Parvathaneni K, Yehya N, Bhalla AK, Thomas NJ, Newth CJL. Khemani RG, et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2018 Jul 1;198(1):77-89. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201707-1404OC. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2018. PMID: 29373802 Free PMC article.

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