Figure 2From: Clinical review: Early treatment of acute lung injury - paradigm shift toward prevention and treatment prior to respiratory failureKaplan-Meier curve of incidence of acute lung injury (left), percentage of patients weaned from ventilator (middle), and mortality (right) in patients mechanically ventilated with conventional tidal volume (solid circles) or lower tidal volumes (open circles). ALI, acute lung injury; ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome. Reprinted from [35] with permission from Critical Care.Back to article page