Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is characterised by acute hypoxaemic
respiratory failure with bilateral infiltrates on chest imaging, which is not fully explained by …

Obesity is an important risk factor for major complications, morbidity and mortality related to
intubation procedures and ventilation in the intensive care unit (ICU). The fall in functional …

Rationale: Mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has decreased after the
adoption of lung-protective strategies. Lower Vt, lower driving pressure (ΔP), lower …

Rationale: If the risk of ventilator-induced lung injury in acute respiratory distress syndrome
(ARDS) is causally determined by driving pressure rather than by Vt, then the effect of …

Background Mechanical power (MP) is the energy delivered to the respiratory system over
time during mechanical ventilation. Our aim was to compare the currently available methods …

Background: Mechanical power during ventilation estimates the energy delivered to the
respiratory system through integrating inspiratory pressures, tidal volume, and respiratory …

Background In ARDS patients, mechanical ventilation should minimize ventilator-induced
lung injury. The mechanical power which is the energy per unit time released to the …

Background Mechanical power is a summary variable including all the components which
can possibly cause VILI (pressures, volume, flow, respiratory rate). Since the complexity of …

Background There is on-going controversy regarding the potential for increased respiratory
effort to generate patient self-inflicted lung injury (P-SILI) in spontaneously breathing …

BACKGROUND The mechanical power of ventilation (MP) has an association with outcome
in invasively ventilated patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) …