PEEP titration guided by transpulmonary pressure: lessons from a negative trial

Fernando Suarez-Sipmann^{1

2

3}, Carlos Ferrando^{2

4}, Jesús Villar^{2

5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain.
² CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
³ Department of Surgical Sciences, Hedenstierna Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hospital Clínic, Institut D'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Multidisciplinary Organ Dysfunction Evaluation Research Network (MODERN), Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Dr. Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
⁶ Keenan Research Center for Biomedical Science at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada.

Editorial

Fernando Suarez-Sipmann et al. J Thorac Dis. 2019 Sep.

. 2019 Sep;11(Suppl 15):S1957-S1962.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2019.08.03.

Fernando Suarez-Sipmann^{1

2

3}, Carlos Ferrando^{2

4}, Jesús Villar^{2

5

6}

¹ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain.
² CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
³ Department of Surgical Sciences, Hedenstierna Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hospital Clínic, Institut D'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Multidisciplinary Organ Dysfunction Evaluation Research Network (MODERN), Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Dr. Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
⁶ Keenan Research Center for Biomedical Science at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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