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Invasive mechanical ventilation is a remarkable advance, but the possibility of ventilator-induced lung injury exists, particularly if the ventilator settings are not optimized.

The best methods to avoid lung injury during mechanical ventilation, either during ventilation of healthy lungs in the operating room or during ventilation as support during critical illness, are topics of debate.

In this review, we summarize the current evidence and review a relatively new concept to prevent lung injury: targeting driving pressure defined by plateau pressure minus positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP; see table 1) when setting and adjusting mechanical ventilation.