More specifically related to your question, different levels of PEEP have been tried in treating ALI/ARDS patients. In the most recent study, again published by the ARDS Network Investigators ...

The characteristics of this patient cohort are summarized in Table 1 . Of 789 patients without ARDS on the first day ... 1.2 to 1.7); PEEP (OR, 1.4 per SD; 95% CI, 1.2 to 1.7); sepsis (OR, 1. ...