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Costa and Amato Critical Care 2010,14:134 /content/14/2/134 COMMENTARY Can heterogeneity in ventilation be good? Eduardo LV Costa and Marcelo BP Amato* 1,2 2 See related research by Zhao et al., /content/14/1/R8 information on the regional ventilation of a cross-section of the thorax and can be used to assess changes in regional ventilation that follow changes in PEEP [7] and to estimate lung collapse and overdistension [6]. Abstract Selection of the optimal positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) to avoid