Guerin et al. Annals of Intensive Care 2011, 1:9

Guerin et al. Annals of Intensive Care 2011, 1:9 http://www.annalsofintensivecare.com/content/1/1/9 REVIEW Open Access Efficacy and safety of recruitment maneuvers in acute respiratory distress syndrome Claude Guerin*, Sophie Debord, Véronique Leray, Bertrand Delannoy, Frédérique Bayle, Gael Bourdin and Jean-Christophe Richard Abstract Recruitment maneuvers (RM) consist of a ventilatory strategy that increases the transpulmonary pressure transiently to reopen the recruitable lung units in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The rationales to use RM in ARDS are that there is a massive loss of aerated lung and that once the end-inspiratory pressure surpasses the regional critical opening pressure of the lung units, those units are likely to reopen....