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Evidence-based guideline for lung-protective ventilation, prone positioning, PEEP optimization, rescue therapies, and ventilator liberation in acute respiratory distress syndrome.
COVID-19 ARDS phenotypes and management, transfusion-related acute lung injury, aspiration-related ARDS, immunocompromised patients, obesity and ARDS, pediatric considerations, long-term outcomes, and ICU quality benchmarks for ventilator management.
High-flow nasal cannula and FLORALI trial evidence, NIV/BiPAP in ARDS, daily spontaneous breathing trial protocols, SAT-SBT coordination, RSBI, extubation criteria, cuff leak test, post-extubation support, and tracheostomy timing.
Recruitment maneuvers and evidence from the ART trial, conservative fluid management from the FACTT trial, inhaled pulmonary vasodilators, ECMO indications and referral criteria from the EOLIA trial, high-frequency oscillatory ventilation, and corticosteroids in ARDS.
Indications, protocols, and evidence for prone positioning in ARDS based on the PROSEVA trial, procedural checklists and contraindications, neuromuscular blockade evidence from ACURASYS and ROSE trials, train-of-four monitoring, and current recommendations.
Berlin criteria for ARDS severity classification, initial ventilator mode selection, lung-protective tidal volume targets, ideal body weight calculations, plateau and driving pressure limits, ARDSNet PEEP/FiO2 tables, respiratory rate management, and permissive hypercapnia.