Table 1.
Ventilator strategy.
Fig 1.
CONSORT diagram of patient recruitment for the comparisons between volume-controlled ventilation (VCV) and expiratory flow-initiated pressure-controlled inverse ratio ventilation (EF-initiated PC-IRV).
Table 2.
Patient and surgery characteristics.
Table 3.
Ventilator settings and respiratory and haemodynamic variables.
Table 4.
Changes in serum cytokine levels.
Fig 2.
Correlation between serum IL-6 at TEnd and the duration of surgery in the volume-controlled ventilation (a) and expiratory flow-initiated pressure-controlled inverse ratio ventilation groups (b).
Fig 3.
Correlation between forced vital capacity (% predicted) and physiological dead space/expired tidal volume at T2h in the volume-controlled ventilation (a) and expiratory flow-initiated pressure-controlled inverse ratio ventilation groups (b). *VDphys/VTE, physiological dead space/expired tidal volume; †FVC (% predicted), forced vital capacity (% predicted).