Effects of Positive End-expiratory Pressure Titration and Recruitment Maneuver on Lung Inflammation and Hyperinflation in Experimental Acid Aspiration–induced Lung Injury

* Assistant Professor, ‡ Professor of Veterinary Medicine, Head of Department of Surgery, # Research Assistant, Department of Surgery, Laboratory of Medical Investigation/Anesthesiology (LIM/08)—Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. ‖ Research Coordinator, ‡‡ Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Medical Director, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Research of the Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Unit Pierre Viars, La Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, Assistance-Publique-Hopitaux-de-Paris, UPMC Univ Paris, Paris, France. ** Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care—Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. § Research Assistant, Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine Federal University from Rio Grande do Sul, Hospital das Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil. † Research Assistant, Department of Emergency Medicine, Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China, and Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Research of the Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Unit Pierre Viars, La Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, Assistance-Publique-Hopitaux-de-Paris, UPMC Univ Paris, Paris, France. †† Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Chairman, Department of Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care, Laboratory of Medical Investigation/Anesthesiology (LIM/08)—Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo. §§ See appendix for members of the Experimental ARDS Study Group.