The STAMINA trial enrolled patients in Brazil with severe pneumonia and acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (aka ARDS), randomizing them to a dynamic strategy limiting the driving pressure (= plateau pressure minus PEEP, representing the distending pressure on the lung with each breath) or a strategy limiting PEEP.
The STAMINA trial was ironically named, it…
The STAMINA trial enrolled patients in Brazil with severe pneumonia and acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (aka ARDS), randomizing them to a dynamic strategy limiting the driving pressure (= plateau pressure minus PEEP, representing the distending pressure on the lung with each breath) or a strategy limiting PEEP.