Despite patients having received the same standard ARDS protocol (fluid therapy, catecholamines, prone positioning, MV protective strategy, and PEEP levels), cointerventions over the 4-yr study ...

And the protocols is what the hospital runs on ... which is that really what we're seeing in ARDS are two different phenotypes -- one in which the lungs display what you call high compliance ...

A new study from Tulane University suggests that repeated collapse and reopening of tiny alveoli—air sacs in the lungs ...