Abstract
Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is characterized by high mortality rate despite enormous progress in the technology of ventilators, improvement in the diagnostic tools and in the pharmacological treatment [1-3]. Mechanical ventilation, although necessary, is generally considered to be one of the main causes of further lung injury to diseased lungs, reducing the possibility of recovery (ventilator-associated lung injury). Ventilator-associated lung injury (VALI) is the consequence of a sustained increase in alveolar pressure (“barotrauma”), alveolar distension (“volutrauma”) or alveolar collapse and decollapse with cycling during inspiration and expiration (“shear stress trauma”). Recent clinical studies suggest that the optimal ventilatory treatment should combine the use of a reduced tidal volume with consequent permissive hypercapnia to reduce volutrauma, low inspiratory pressures to reduce barotrauma and an adequate level of positive end-expiratory pressure to recruit as much collapsed parenchyma as possible to reduce shear stress trauma [4, 5]. However, different etiologies leading to ARDS and time may produce different alterations in the lung structure with consequent different responses to the ventilatory treatment.
Keywords
- Tidal Volume
- Acute Respiratory Failure
- Respir Crit
- Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Transpulmonary Pressure
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Pelosi, P., Brazzi, L. (1998). Mechanical Ventilation in ARDS: What a Fine Mess!. In: Gullo, A. (eds) Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine - A.P.I.C.E.. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2278-2_18
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