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Available online /content/12/2/122 Commentary Lost in translation? The pursuit of lung-protective ventilation Andrew T Jones Department of Intensive Care Medicine, 1st Floor East Wing, St Thomas’s Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7EH, UK Corresponding author: Andrew T Jones, Andrew.Jones@gstt.nhs.uk Published: 31 March 2008 Critical Care 2008, 12:122 (doi:10.1186/cc6828) This article is online at /content/12/2/122 © 2008 BioMed Central Ltd See related research by The Irish Critical Care Trials Group, /content/12/1/R30 Abstract [2]. As a result, they surely provide fertile environments not Acute lung injury (ALI) and the acute respiratory distress syndrome only for ongoing education and training in critical care (ARDS) remain important causes of morbidity and mortality in the medicine and research methodology, but also a forum for the critically ill patient, with far-reaching short-term and long-term discussion and advancement of clinical critical care practice. implications for individual patients and for healthcare providers. It is well accepted that mechanical ventilation can worsen lung injury, The data regarding statin use are tantalizing, and add to the potentially worsening systemic organ function, and can thus impact growing debate and interest regarding these agents in the on mortality in acute lung injury (ALI)/ARDS. Unfortunately, although the concept of minimizing such damage via lung- critically ill patient [3]. As the a