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Is transpulmonary pressure-guided PEEP titration really optimal?

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This work was supported by a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI Grant (Number JP 16K09541).

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  1. Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8551, Japan

    Satoshi Yamaga, Shinichiro Ohshimo & Nobuaki Shime

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Yamaga, S., Ohshimo, S. & Shime, N. Is transpulmonary pressure-guided PEEP titration really optimal?. Intensive Care Med 42, 1845–1846 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-016-4516-z

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