ARDSnet. Tidal volume strategy. NEJM 2000

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Randomised Controlled Trial

Reference

The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network.
Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome.
New England Journal of Medicine 2000; 342: 1301-1308.

Treating ARDS patients with low tidal volume ventilation (6ml/kg) reduced hospital mortality for all comers for ARDS from 39.8% to 31% compared to high tidal volume (12ml/kg) ventilation.

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