title: Variable ventilation from bench to bedside.
abstract: This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency medicine 2016. Other selected articles can be found online at http://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/annualupdate2016. Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901.
authors.affiliation: Pulmonary Engineering Group, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Huhle
authors.affiliation: University of Genoa, Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, IRCCS AOU San Martino IST, 16131, Genoa, Italy. ppelosi@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pelosi
authors.affiliation: Pulmonary Engineering Group, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Marcelo Gama
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: de Abreu
mesh_terms: D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D059725:Interactive Ventilatory Support / Q000379:methods*; D008168:Lung / Q000502:physiology*; D012119:Respiration; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*