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Patients with uninjured lungs may also benefit from lung-protective ventilator settings

2017-11-22

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Although mechanical ventilation is a life-saving strategy in critically ill patients and an indispensable tool in patients under general anesthesia for surgery, it also acts as a double-edged sword. Indeed, ventilation is increasingly recognized as a potentially dangerous intrusion that has the potential to harm lungs, in a condition known as ‘ventilator-induced lung injury’ (VILI). So-called ‘lung-protective’ ven...

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e2956b38-71f1-571e-b055-45a5a841f41b
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10.12688/f1000research.12225.1
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