Fig. 1From: Lung stress, strain, and energy load: engineering concepts to understand the mechanism of ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI)The plateau pressure (black line at top of the red area curve) in LVt (a) is significantly lower than that of APRV (b) yet the transpulmonary pressures (blue) are statistically similar between the groups. This demonstrates that the increases in plateau pressure in APRV reflect and increase in pleural pressure (red)Back to article page