Respiratory care
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Respir Care
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Mechanical ventilation has long been recognized as the most vital therapy for patients with ARDS. Compared with lung-protective ventilation, debates that involve the open lung strategy, which consists primarily of the lung recruitment maneuver and higher PEEP, have never been resolved. ⋯ However, their limitations related to excessive generalization, accuracy, and identification of cutoff values cannot be omitted. Finally, future studies are warranted to combine these classic methods with newly invented techniques to achieve safer and more effective lung recruitment.