Anesthesiology • Vol 130 • No 5
Lung Recruitment in Obese Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
March 2019 • Jacopo Fumagalli, Roberta Ribeiro De Santis Santiago, Maddalena Teggia Droghi, Changsheng Zhang, Florian J. Fintelmann, Fabian M. Troschel, Caio C. A…
Abstract Editor’s Perspective What We Already Know about This Topic Obesity increases the propensity to atelectasis in acute respiratory distress syndrome, but the optimal approach to reversing this atelectasis is uncertain What This Article Tells Us That Is New A clinical crossover study comparing three approaches to titrate positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP; according to a fixed table, according to end-expiratory esophageal pressure, and targeting the best compliance during a decremental PEEP trial) found t…