New and conventional strategies for lung recruitment in acute respiratory distress syndrome

Crit Care. 2010;14(2):210. doi: 10.1186/cc8851. Epub 2010 Mar 9.

Abstract

This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2010 (Springer Verlag) and co-published as a series in Critical Care. Other articles in the series can be found online at http://ccforum.com/series/yearbook. Further information about the Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/2855.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Critical Illness
  • Humans
  • Positive-Pressure Respiration / methods
  • Pulmonary Atelectasis / prevention & control
  • Respiratory Distress Syndrome / physiopathology
  • Respiratory Distress Syndrome / therapy*