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Available online /content/8/3/163 Review Clinical review: Bedside assessment of alveolar recruitment Jean-Christophe Richard1, Salvatore M Maggiore2 and Alain Mercat3 1Medical Intensive Care Unit, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France 2Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Agostino Gemelli Hospital, Università Cattolica del sacro cuore, Rome, Italy 3Angers University Hospital, Angers, France Correspondence: Jean-Christophe Richard, Jean-Christophe.Richard@chu-rouen.fr Published online: 22 October 2003 Critical Care 2004, 8:163-169 (DOI 10.1186/cc2391) This article is online a