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This month's Editor’s Choice is a single-center, retrospective review of electronic health record data comparing adaptive pressure control (APC)-continuous mandatory ventilation to volume control (VC)-continuous mandatory ventilation. Tran et al used multivariable logistic regression to identify variables associated with the initial mode and duration of use of each mode, as well as the number of ventilator setting changes per day. Sedation, as a function of mode, was also compared.

This month’s Editor’s Choice compares web-based simulator training to on-site simulator training in mechanical ventilation of critical care fellows. Safadi and colleagues provided a course on mechanical ventilation followed by the two simulation methods (web-based vs a physical simulator and test lung), and compared test scores regarding ventilator waveform identification. They found no differences in scores between groups using a 5-question exam.

analgesics opioid hospitalization pneumonia cohort studies mortality Footnotes Correspondence: In-Ae Song MD PhD, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital Gumi-ro, 173, Beon-gil, Bundang-gu, Seongnam, 13620, South Korea. E-mail: songoficu{at}outlook.kr The authors have disclosed no conflicts of interest. This study was supported by Hanlim Pharmaceutical, Seoul, South Korea (grant number: 06-2023-0218).