Fig. 5From: Optimized ventilation power to avoid VILIInfluence of raising PEEP on recruitment and strain of stress-focused junctional alveoli in zones where open and closed units are contiguous. With the same driving pressure applied, increasing PEEP reduces the number of high-risk interfaces but increases the stress applied at ‘above- threshold’ pressures to those interfaces that remain unrecruited (dashed horizontal red line = threshold pressure)Back to article page