title: Year in review 2014: mechanical ventilation.
abstract: Mechanical ventilation is an important and ever-evolving component of everyday critical care. Clinicians can struggle to keep up with current literature and descriptions of advancement in a way that they can apply these changes to their bedside patient care. This article serves as a review of important recent findings related to invasive mechanical ventilation and describes their relevance to bedside critical care.
authors.affiliation: Adult Critical Care, Respiratory Care Services, Iowa Methodist Medical Center, UnityPoint Health, Des Moines, Iowa. keith.lamb@unitypoint.org.
authors.forename: Keith D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Lamb
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000628:therapy*
keywords: ABCDE bundle; ARDS; HFOV; PEEP; dead-space fraction; mechanical ventilation; ventilator-associated condition (VAC)