Mechanical ventilation inevitably exposes the delicate tissues of the airways and alveoli to abnormal mechanical stresses that can induce pulmonary edema and exacerbate conditions such as acute respiratory distress syndrome. The goal of our research is to characterize the cellular trauma caused by t...

Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Keywords: acute respiratory distress syndrome, computational model, lung elastance, mechanical ventilation, recruitment and derecruitment, ventilator-induced lung injury, volutrauma

Since its introduction into the management of the acute respiratory distress syndrome, mechanical ventilation has been so strongly interwoven with its side effects that it came to be considered as invariably dangerous. Over the decades, attention has shifted from gross barotrauma to volutrauma and, ...

Ventilator-induced lung injury develops from interactions between the lung parenchyma and applied mechanical power. In acute respiratory distress syndrome, the lung is smaller size with an inhomogeneous structure. The same mechanical force applied on a reduced parenchyma would produce volutrauma; th...