NEJM - ARDS

"Driving Pressure and Survival in the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome"

"CONCLUSIONS

We found that ΔP was the ventilation variable that best stratified risk. Decreases in ΔP owing to changes in ventilator settings were strongly associated with increased survival. (Funded by Fundação de Amparo e Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo and others.)"

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1410639?query=featured_home