This is the Scientific Surgery Archive, which contains all randomized clinical trials in surgery that have been identified by searching the top 50 English language medical journal issues since January 1998. Compiled by Jonothan J. Earnshaw, former Editor-in-Chief, BJS
High versus low positive end-expiratory pressure during general anaesthesia for open abdominal surgery (PROVHILO trial): a multicentre randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2014; 384: 495-503.
Published: 5th February 2015
Authors: The PROVE network Investigators
Conclusion
A strategy of high PEEP did not reduce the rate of postoperative pulmonary complications (40 per cent versus 39 percent with low PEEP) in this study that included 900 procedures.
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