Why clinicians are slow to implement advances in diagnosis and treatment from well-designed clinical trials is a continuously debated question in critical care. For instance, prone positioning significantly improves mortality in patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), but the usefulness of recruitment measures in this population is still under debate. Nevertheless, a re...

Corresponding author: Hyun Kyoung Lim, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inha University Hospital, 7-206, #3 Sinheung-dong, Jung-gu, Incheon 400-711, Korea. Tel: 82-32-890-3968, Fax: 82-32-881-2476, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/lice...

provided the original work is properly cited. CC A 3-month-old (39 weeks postconceptual age) male infant weighing 2.9 kg was scheduled for laser photocoagulation with a diagnosis of retinopathy of prematurity. He was born at 27 weeks gestation with a birth weight of 970 g. He had been mechanically ventilated from birth for 20 days for respiratory insufficiency due to respiratory distress syndro...