Point: should positive end-expiratory pressure in patients with ARDS be set on oxygenation? Yes.
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine, Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT; Division of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Occupational Pulmonary Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Murray, UT. Electronic address: Russ.Miller@imail.org.
Russell R
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Miller
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Neil R
NR
MacIntyre
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Immunologic Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.
R Duncan
RD
Hite
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Jonathon D
JD
Truwit
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Roy G
RG
Brower
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine, Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT; Division of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Occupational Pulmonary Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Murray, UT.
Alan H
AH
Morris
D000403:Airway Resistance; D006801:Humans; D008170:Lung Compliance; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood*; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration; D011659:Pulmonary Gas Exchange; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000628:therapy*; D015656:Respiratory Mechanics
D010100:Oxygen