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  1. Servei de Medicina Intensiva, Parc Taulí Hospital Universitari, Institut de Recerca Part Taulí–I3PT, Parc del Taulí 1, 08028, Sabadell, Spain

    Oriol Roca

  2. Departament de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

    Oriol Roca

  3. Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Ewan C. Goligher

  4. Department of Medicine, University Health Network Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Ewan C. Goligher

  5. Toronto General Hospital Research Institute Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Ewan C. Goligher

  6. Laboratório de Pneumologia LIM-09, Disciplina de Pneumologia, Heart Institute (Incor), Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Marcelo B. P. Amato

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OR reports receiving a research grant from Hamilton Medical AG and Fihser&Paykel Healthcare Ltd, speaker fees from Hamilton Medical AG, Fisher&Paykel Healthcare Ltd, Aerogen Ltd and Ambu, and non-financial research support from Timpel; all outside the submitted work. EG reports research funding from the Canadian Institute of Health Research and the National Sanitarium Association for research related to the submitted work. He also reports receiving personal fees from Getinge, Vyaire, BioAge, LungPacer, and Zoll for work unrelated to the submitted work. MBPA reports that, in the last five years, his laboratory has received research grants to investigate mechanical ventilation from Covidien/Medtronics, Orange Med/Nihon Koden, and MagnaMed S.A. He also received research grants from Timpel S.A, to investigate Electrical Impedance Tomography. MBPA is a minority shareholder in Timpel.

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Roca, O., Goligher, E.C. & Amato, M.B.P. Driving pressure: applying the concept at the bedside. Intensive Care Med 49, 991–995 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-023-07071-2

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