Bedside personalized methods based on electrical impedance tomography or respiratory mechanics to set PEEP in ARDS and recruitment-to-inflation ratio: a physiologic study.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateEthics approval was obtained from the appropriate legal and ethical authorities (ethics committee of the University Hospital of Angers #2023-42). As the study reports data routinely acquired in usual care, signed informed consent was waived, according to local legislation. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsJCR reports part-time salary for research activities from Air Liquide Medical Systems and Vygon and grants from Creative Air Liquide, outside this work. TM received personal fees from Drager, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, Mindray and BBraun, all outside of the submitted work. AM reports personal fees from Faron Pharmaceuticals, Air Liquid Medical Systems, Pfizer, Resmed and Draeger and grants and personal fees from Fisher and Paykel and Covidien, outside this work. FB reports consulting fees from Löwenstein Medical and Air Liquide Medical Systems and research support from Covidien, GE Healthcare and Getinge Group, outside this work. The other authors have no conflict of interest to declare. Competing interests JCR reports part-time salary for research activities from Air Liquide Medical Systems and Vygon and grants from Creative Air Liquide, outside this work. TM received personal fees from Drager, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, Mindray and BBraun, all outside of the submitted work. AM reports personal fees from Faron Pharmaceuticals, Air Liquid Medical Systems, Pfizer, Resmed and Draeger and grants and personal fees from Fisher and Paykel and Covidien, outside this work. FB reports consulting fees from Löwenstein Medical and Air Liquide Medical Systems and research support from Covidien, GE Healthcare and Getinge Group, outside this work. The other authors have no conflict of interest to declare."

"Funding No dedicated funding was allocated to this work."