PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ariel Modrykamien
AU  - Robert L. Chatburn
AU  - Rendell W. Ashton
TI  - Airway pressure release ventilation: An alternative mode of mechanical ventilation in acute respiratory distress syndrome
AID  - 10.3949/ccjm.78a.10032
DP  - 2011 Feb 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 101--110
VI  - 78
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/78/2/101.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/78/2/101.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2011 Feb 01; 78
AB  - Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) results in collapse of alveoli and therefore poor oxygenation. In this article, we review airway pressure release ventilation (APRV), a mode of mechanical ventilation that may be useful when, owing to ARDS, areas of the lungs are collapsed and need to be reinflated (“recruited”), avoiding cyclic alveolar collapse and reopening.