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Luciano Gattinoni, MD, FRCP; Pietro Caironi, MD

JAMA. 2008;299(6):691-693.

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Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is the clinical manifestation of inflammatory lung edema originating from a variety of insults. Since its first description 40 years ago,¹ the mainstays of management have been institution of mechanical ventilation to ventilate the incompliant lungs, inspired oxygen for hypoxemia, and when hypoxemia is severe, the addition of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) to increase end-expiration lung volume, which facilitates O₂ gas exchange.²

Early on, physicians recognized that the high intrathoracic pressures of mechanical ventilation caused parenchymal stress or rupture, known as barotrauma.³ However, it took several years to identify the local injury resulting from intratidal opening and closing of parts of the lung (atelectrauma)⁴ and the inflammatory reaction of the lung to nonphysiological stress (biotrauma).^5-6 Subsequently computed tomographic scanning showed that the lung fraction open to gas exchange in ARDS is small, equivalent in size to that of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliations: Istituto di Anestesiologia e Rianimazione, Fondazione IRCCS–Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli, e Regina Elena di Milano, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.

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