PulmPEEPs

In this podcast episode, we continue our summer series reviewing landmark ARDS studies. Today, Dave and Luke discuss the Driving Pressure trial (published in NEJM in 2015) which evaluated the impact of driving pressure on survival in patients with ARDS.

Article and Reference

We are talking about the Driving Pressure trial today which evaluated the impact of driving pressure, as an independent variable, on survival in patients with ARDS.

Amato MB, Meade MO, Slutsky AS, Brochard L, Costa EL, Schoenfeld DA, Stewart TE, Briel M, Talmor D, Mercat A, Richard JC, Carvalho CR, Brower RG. Driving pressure and survival in the acute respiratory distress syndrome. N Engl J Med. 2015 Feb 19;372(8):747-55. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa1410639. PMID: 25693014.

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