It is inherently true that extremely high pressures delivered by the ventilator may lead to lung injury. It is perhaps not widely appreciated that the peak pressure alarm in ventilators is not simply an alarm. The ventilator also cycles the inspiration off when the upper limit of PIP (set by the user) is reached.
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