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    Lung recruitment in patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome
    (MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOC, 2006) Gattinoni, L; Caironi, P; Cressoni, M; Chiumello, D; Ranieri, VM; Quintel, M; Russo, S; Patroniti, N; Cornejo, R; Bugedo, G
    Background: In the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) may decrease ventilator-induced lung injury by keeping lung regions open that otherwise would be collapsed. Since the effects of PEEP probably depend on the recruitability of lung tissue, we conducted a study to examine the relationship between the percentage of potentially recruitable lung, as indicated by computed tomography (CT), and the clinical and physiological effects of PEEP.