ART - Alveolar Recruitment for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Trial

Exclusion Criteria

• •age less than 18 years
• •use of vasopressor drugs in increasing doses over the last 2 hours or mean arterial blood pressure less than 65mmHg
• •presence of any contraindication to hypercapnia as intracranial hypertension or acute coronary syndrome
• •pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, subcutaneous emphysema or pneumatocele
• •patient with no therapeutic perspective, candidates for palliative care exclusively
• •patient previously randomized in the ART