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Transpulmonary pressure targets for open lung and protective ventilation: response to Dr. Graf's comment

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  1. Dipartimento dell’Emergenza e Trapianti d’Organo (DETO), Sezione di Anestesiologia e Rianimazione, Ospedale Policlinico, Università degli Studi Aldo Moro, Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, Bari, Italy

    Salvatore Grasso

  2. Dipartimento di Anestesia e di Medicina degli Stati Critici, Ospedale S.Giovanni Battista-Molinette, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy

    V. Marco Ranieri

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Grasso, S., Ranieri, V.M. Transpulmonary pressure targets for open lung and protective ventilation: response to Dr. Graf's comment. Intensive Care Med 38, 1567–1568 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-012-2646-5

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