The role of protective intra-operative ventilation with alveolar recruitment strategies in minimising acute lung injury in lung transplantation.

Pressure-controlled ventilation 16cmH2O, repeated recruitment manoeuvres, positive end-expiratory pressure 10cmH2O with a tidal volume limit of 10ml/kg for two-lung ventilation and 6ml/kg for one-lung ventilation. The respiratory rate will be titrated to control partial pressures of carbon dioxide, from allograft insertion to end of surgery