1Laboratory of Pulmonary Investigation, Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2National Institute of Science and Technology on Photonics Applied to Cell Biology (INFABIC), Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
3Department of Structural and Functional Biology, Institute of Biology, State University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
4Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
5Department of General Surgery, State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.
6Department of Biology, State University of New York (SUNY) Cortland, Cortland, NY.
7Department of Trauma Critical Care Medicine, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, MD.
*See also p. 1038.
Drs. Silva, Cruz, Samary, and Moraes contributed equally to this work.
Drs. Andrews, Habashi, Nieman, and Rocco share senior authorship.
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Supported, in part, by the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), the Rio de Janeiro State Research Foundation (The Carlos Chagas Filho Rio de Janeiro State Research Supporting Foundation [FAPERJ]), the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, and the Department of Science and Technology—Brazilian Ministry of Health.
Dr. Silva received support for article research from FAPERJ and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). Drs. de Magalhães and Bose received support for article research from CNPq. Drs. Gatto, Andrews, Nieman, and Habashi have lectured for Intensive Care Online Network (ICON). Dr. Gatto received funding from the Canadian Society of Respiratory Therapists (lecture honorarium). Drs. Andrews, Habashi, and Nieman have presented and received honoraria and/or travel reimbursement at events sponsored by Dräger Medical Systems, outside of the published work. Dr. Andrews received funding from lectures at conferences sponsored by Draeger Medical and ICON (reimbursement for travel expenses and honorarium). Dr. Habashi received funding from lecturing at industry sponsored events including Draeger Medical (travel expenses and honorarium) and disclosed having patents in the area of mechanical ventilation (although no money from stocks, royalties, or license fees have been received); he is the founder of ICON, of which Dr. Andrews is an employee; and he holds patents on a method of initiating, managing, and/or weaning airway pressure release ventilation, as well as controlling a ventilator in accordance with the same, but these patents are not commercialized, licensed, nor royalty producing. Dr. Nieman received funding from Draeger Medical. The remaining authors have disclosed that they do not have any potential conflicts of interest.
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