Setting Individualized Positive End-Expiratory Pressure Level with a Positive End-Expiratory Pressure Decrement Trial After a Recruitment Maneuver Improves Oxygenation and Lung Mechanics During One-Lung Ventilation

During one-lung ventilation, the improvements in oxygenation and lung mechanics after an alveolar recruitment maneuver were better preserved by ventilation by using individualized PEEP with a PEEP decrement trial than with a standardized 5 cm·H2O of PEEP.