General
General
- MacIntyre. Managing mechanical ventilation: Clinical challenges 2024. J Precision Respiratory Medicine 2025;8(1):26-32
- Bayram. Invasive mechanical ventilation in the emergency department. Turk J Emerg Med 2019;19(2):43-52
- Nieman. Acute lung injury: how to stabilize a broken lung. Crit Care 2018;22(1):136
- Walter. Invasive Mechanical Ventilation. South Med J 2018;111(12):746-753
- Alviar. ACC Critical Care Cardiology Working Group. Positive Pressure Ventilation in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. J Am Coll Cardiol 2018;72(13):1532-1553
Baby Lung Concept
Open Lung Approach
Prolonged Ventilation
Haemodynamic Effects
- Di Cristo. Hemodynamic Effects of Positive Airway Pressure: A Cardiologist’s Overview. J Cardiovasc Dev Dis 2025;12:97
- Mahmood. Heart-lung interactions during mechanical ventilation: the basics. Ann Transl Med. 2018;6(18):349
- Berger. Determinants of systemic venous return and the impact of positive pressure ventilation. Ann Transl Med 2018;6(18):350
Conditions
ARDS
- Sklar. Advances in Ventilator Management for Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Clin Chest Med 2022;43(3):499-509
- Liaqat. Evidence-Based Mechanical Ventilatory Strategies in ARDS. J Clin Med 2022;11(2):319
- Coleman. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Ventilator Management and Rescue Therapies. Crit Care Clin 2021;37(4):851-866
- Aslam. Spontaneous Versus Controlled Mechanical Ventilation in Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Curr Anesthesiol Rep 2021;11(2):85-91
- Beitler. Lung protection in acute respiratory distress syndrome: what should we target? Curr Opin Crit Care 2020;26(1):26-34
- Sklar. Optimal Ventilator Strategies in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Semin Respir Crit Care Med 2019;40(1):81-93
- Petitjeans. Building on the Shoulders of Giants: Is the use of Early Spontaneous Ventilation in the Setting of Severe Diffuse Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Actually Heretical? Turk J Anaesthesiol Reanim 2018;46(5):339-347
ECMO
- Abrams. Mechanical Ventilation for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome during Extracorporeal Life Support. Research and Practice. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020;201(5):514-525
- Patroniti. Mechanical ventilation and respiratory monitoring during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for respiratory support. Ann Transl Med 2018;6(19):386
Intra-Abdominal Hypertension
Brain Injury
- Frisvold. Respiratory challenges and ventilatory management in different types of acute brain-injured patients. Crit Care 2023;27:247
- Humayun. Mechanical ventilation in acute brain injury patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. Front Med 2022;9:999885
- Robba. Mechanical ventilation in patients with acute ischaemic stroke: from pathophysiology to clinical practice. Crit Care 2019;23(1):388
Obesity
Cardiac Surgery
Interstitial Lung Disease
Complications
General Complications
Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury
- Marini. Static and Dynamic Contributors to Ventilator-induced Lung Injury in Clinical Practice. Pressure, Energy, and Power. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020;201(7):767-774
- Gaver. The POOR Get POORer: A Hypothesis for the Pathogenesis of Ventilator-induced Lung Injury. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2020;202(8):1081-1087
- Madahar. Emerging concepts in ventilation-induced lung injury. F1000Res 2020;9:F1000 Faculty Rev-222
- Katira. Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury: Classic and Novel Concepts. Respir Care 2019;64(6):629-637
Patient-Ventilator Dyssynchrony
- Rietveld. Let’s get in sync: current standing and future of AI-based detection of patient-ventilator asynchrony. ICMx 2025;13:39
- De Oliveira. Patient-Ventilator Dyssynchrony in Critically Ill Patients. J Clin Med 2021;10(19):455
- Esperanza. Monitoring Asynchrony During Invasive Mechanical Ventilation. Respir Care 2020;65(6):847-869
- Sottile. Ventilator dyssynchrony - Detection, pathophysiology, and clinical relevance: A Narrative review. Ann Thorac Med. 2020;15(4):190-198
- Bruni. Patient-ventilator asynchrony in adult critically ill patients. Minerva Anestesiol 2019;85(6):676-688
- Subirà. Minimizing Asynchronies in Mechanical Ventilation: Current and Future Trends. Respir Care. 2018;63(4):464-478
Diaphragmatic Injury
- Itagaki. Diaphragm-protective mechanical ventilation in acute respiratory failure. J Med Invest 2022;69(3.4):165-172
- Shi. Diaphragm-Protective Mechanical Ventilation: Saving the Diaphragm from the Detrimental Effects of Mechanical Ventilation. J Transl Crit Care Med 2022;4:5
- Schepens. Lung- and Diaphragm-protective Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Rationale and Challenges. Anesthesiology 2019;130(4):620-633
Monitoring
Waveforms
Electrical Impedence Tomography
- Xu. Lung Perfusion Assessment by Bedside Electrical Impedance Tomography in Critically Ill Patients. Front Physiol 2021;12:748724
- aciejewski. Electrical impedance tomography as a tool for monitoring mechanical ventilation. An introduction to the technique. Adv Med Sci 2021;66(2):388-395
- Sang. A narrative review of electrical impedance tomography in lung diseases with flow limitation and hyperinflation: methodologies and applications. Ann Transl Med 2020;8(24):1688
Driving Pressure
Expiratory Time Constant
Modes
Proportional Modes
APRV
- Andrews. Myths and Misconceptions of Airway Pressure Release Ventilation: Getting Past the Noise and on to the Signal. Front Physiol 2022;13:928562
- Cheng. Does airway pressure release ventilation offer new hope for treating acute respiratory distress syndrome? J Intensive Med 2022;epublished March 28th
- Fredericks. Airway Pressure Release Ventilation: A Review of the Evidence, Theoretical Benefits, and Alternative Titration Strategies. Clin Med Insights Circ Respir Pulm Med. 2020;14:1179548420903297
- Swindin. Airway pressure release ventilation. BJA Educ 2020;20(3):80-88
- Kollisch-Singule. The time-controlled adaptive ventilation protocol: mechanistic approach to reducing ventilator-induced lung injury. Eur Respir Rev 2019;28(152):180126
Closed-Loop Ventilation
Flow-Controlled Ventilation
Positive & Negative Synchronised Ventilation
High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation
Intermittent Mandatory Ventilation
Settings
General
- Costa. Optimizing Mechanical Ventilation: A Clinical and Practical Bedside Method for the Identification and Management of Patient–Ventilator Asynchronies in Critical Care. J Clin Med 2025;14:214
- Silva. The basics of respiratory mechanics: ventilator-derived parameters. Ann Transl Med 2018;6(19):376
Protective Ventilation
- Thornton. Optimized ventilation power to avoid VILI. J Intensive Care 2023;11:57
- Goligher. Clinical strategies for implementing lung and diaphragm-protective ventilation: avoiding insufficient and excessive effort. Intensive Care Med 2020;46(12):2314-2326
- Nieman. A Physiologically Informed Strategy to Effectively Open, Stabilize, and Protect the Acutely Injured Lung. Front Physiol 2020;11:227
PEEP
- Francovich. Electrical impedance tomography to set positive end-expiratory pressure. Curr Opin Crit Care 2025;epublished February 13th
- Edginton. Methods for determining optimal positive end-expiratory pressure in patients undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation: a scoping review. Can J Anesth 2024;71:1535–1555
- Somhorst. Setting positive end-expiratory pressure: the use of esophageal pressure measurements. Curr Opin Crit Care 2023;epublished December 4th
- Kneyber. Positive end-expiratory pressure in the pediatric intensive care unit. Paediatr Respir Rev 2023 Nov 23:S1526-0542(23)00080-5
Driving Pressure
- Zaidi. Driving pressure in mechanical ventilation: A review. World J Crit Care Med 2024;13(1):88385
- Yang. An Updated Review of Driving-Pressure Guided Ventilation Strategy and Its Clinical Application. Biomed Res Int 2022;2022:6236438
- Ahn. Driving pressure guided ventilation. Korean J Anesthesiol. 2020;73(3):194-204
Last updated March 31st, 2025