Mechanical ventilation in acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome

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aDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Therapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, Fetscherstr, Dresden, Germany bDepartment of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy Correspondence to Paolo Pelosi, Professor in Anesthesiology, Head of Anesthesiology and Post-Operative Intensive Care, Head of School for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, University of Genoa, Largo Rosanna Benzi 8, 16132 Genoa, Italy. Tel: +39 010 3537242; fax: +39 010 3537538; e-mail: [email protected]