See the Post on Intensivecarenetwork.com

Ash Banerjee talks about the history of ventilation and where we are today. He discusses in particular current concepts about lung protective ventilation strategies and how we can ventilate with the least amount of harm.

For more details on how to select the ideal PEEP for a patient, or how one would set up the ventilator for an ARDS patient, have a look at Alex Yartsev's site Deranged Physiology, where there's a great post on the Optimal PEEP for Open Lung Ventilation in ARDS which specifically mentions Gattinoni's recent review paper.