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To the Editor: I wonder how the results of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute ARDS Clinical Trials Network study (July 22 issue)¹ would have looked if the recruitment maneuvers had been performed in all 276 patients who were assigned to a higher positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP). These patients had a clinical outcome similar to that in the lower-PEEP group, although they had less favorable baseline characteristics (older age, a lower ratio of the partial pressure of arterial oxygen to the fraction of inspired oxygen [PaO₂:FiO₂], a higher rate of primary acute respiratory distress syndrome [ARDS] or . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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