Identifying Optimal PEEP After Lung Transplantation

Exclusion Criteria

• •Age \< 18 years
• •Already undergone LUTX
• •Major hemodynamic instability along the 24 hours following LUTX: systolic arterial pressure \< 90 mmHg and/or heart rate \> 120 beat/min and/or high dose vasopressor requirement (norepinephrine \> 0.3 mcg/kg/min and/or epinephrine \> 0.2 mcg/kg/min and/or dobutamine \> 8mcg/kg/min)
• •Documented post-LUTX endobronchial plasma leak requiring high levels of PEEP \> 15 cmH2O