General
General
- MacIntyre. Managing mechanical ventilation: Clinical challenges 2024. J Precision Respiratory Medicine 2025;8(1):26-32
- Szafran. Invasive mechanical ventilation. Crit Care Clin 2024;40(2):255-273
- 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
Home Ventilation
Conditions
ARDS
- Ball. Mechanical ventilation in ARDS: navigating the fine line with real-time monitoring. Crit Care 2026;30:142
- Azzam. Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Precision Mechanical Ventilation in ARDS. J Clin Med 2026;15(5):2058
- Muldiiarov. Optimizing mechanical ventilation strategies in ARDS: the role of driving pressure and low tidal volume ventilation. Crit Care Res Pract 2025;2025:8857930
- Battaglini. Mechanical ventilation in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: current status and future perspectives. Expert Rev Med Devices 2023;20(11):905-917
- 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
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
- Kitisin. Mechanical ventilation for ICU patient with obesity: current best practices and future directions. Intensive Care Med 2026;52:1051-1065
- Boesing. Positive end-expiratory pressure optimisation during general anaesthesia in patients with obesity: a narrative review of respiratory and cardiovascular outcomes. Br J Anaesth 2026;136:970-982
- Nova. Obesity: biomechanical implications for mechanical ventilation. Crit Care. 2026;30:375
- Cobilinschi. Ventilation in critically ill obese patients—Why it should be done differently?. Signa Vitae 2022;epublished November 10th
Cardiac Surgery
Interstitial Lung Disease
Complications
General Complications
Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury
- Merola. Ventilator-induced lung injury: the unseen challenge in acute respiratory distress syndrome management. J Clin Med 2025;14(11):3910
- 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
- Thornton. Optimized ventilation power to avoid VILI. J Intensive Care 2023;11:57
- 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
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
- 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(1):214
- Tlimat. Artificial intelligence for the detection of patient–ventilator asynchrony. Respir Care 2025;70(5):583-592
- Yoon. An overview of patient-ventilator asynchrony in children. Expert Rev Respir Med 2025;19(5):435-447
- 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
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
General
- Chiumello. The invasive and non-invasive monitoring of inspiratory effort and drive during assisted mechanical ventilation. Ann Intensive Care 2026;16:100003
- Graßhoff. Continuous and noninvasive respiratory effort monitoring: a narrative review of emerging techniques. J Intensive Care 2026;14:9
- Tonelli. Assessing inspiratory drive and effort in critically ill patients at the bedside. Crit Care 2025;29:339
- Pettenuzzo. Real-time stress and strain monitoring at the bedside: new frontiers in mechanical ventilation. Front Med 2025;12:1692488
- Giosa. Bedside assessment of the respiratory system during invasive mechanical ventilation. J Clin Med 2024;13(23):7456
- Karbing. What is new in respiratory monitoring? J Clin Monit Comput. 2022;36(3):599-607
Waveforms
- Marx. A Technique for Monitoring Mechanically Ventilated Patient Lung Conditions. Diagnostics 2024;14(23):2616
- Mireles-Cabodevila. A Taxonomy for Patient-Ventilator Interactions and a Method to Read Ventilator Waveforms. Respir Care 2022;67(1):129–148
- Emrath. The Basics of Ventilator Waveforms. Curr Pediatr Rep 2021;9(1):11–19
- Gertler. Respiratory Mechanics. Anesthesiol Clin 2021;39(3):415–440
- Dexter. Ventilator Graphics: Scalars, Loops, & Secondary Measures. Respir Care 2020;65(6):739-759
Electrical Impedence Tomography
- Bayat. Lung electrical impedance tomography during positioning, weaning and chest physiotherapy in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients: a narrative review. Ann Intensive Care 2025;15:127
- 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
Artificial Intelligence
Lung Ultrasound
Modes
NAVA
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 - General
- Cornejo. Protective ventilation during controlled and partial ventilatory support in ARDS: clinical–physiological background and monitoring. J Clin Med 2026;15(5):1830
- Park. Lung-protective ventilation strategy in acute respiratory distress syndrome: a critical reappraisal of current practice. Crit Care 2025;29:444
- Ferrando. Improving lung protective mechanical ventilation: the individualised intraoperative open-lung approach. Br J Anaesth 2025;134(2):281-287
- 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
Protective Ventilation - Circulation
PEEP
- Servetti. Optimising positive end-expiratory pressure in acute respiratory distress syndrome: a narrative review of approaches to titration. Br J Anaesth 2026;136:1472-1481
- 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
Clinical Decision Support Systems
Weaning
- 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 July 28th, 2026