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Background  A recent prospective trial using porcine models of severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) indicated that positive-pressure ventilation delivered by a conventional intensive care ventilator at a moderately high frequency allows safe reduction of tidal volume below 6 ml/kg, leading to more protective ventilation. We aimed to explore whether these results would be replicated when implementing similar ventilation strategies in a high-fidelity computational simulator, tuned to match data on the responses of a number of human ARDS patients to different ventilator inputs.    Methods  We evaluated three different strategies for managing the trade-off between increasing respiratory rate and reducing tidal volume while attempting to maintain the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in arterial blood (PaCO 2 ) constant on a computational simulator configured with ARDS patient datasets.    Results  For a fixed sequence of stepwise increases in the respiratory rate, corresponding decreases in tidal volume to keep the alveolar minute ventilation and inspiratory flow constant were calculated according to standard formulae. When applied on the simulator, however, these sequences of ventilator settings failed to maintain PaCO 2  adequately in the virtual patients considered. In contrast, an approach based on combining numerical optimisation methods with computational simulation allowed a sequence of tidal volume reductions to be computed for each virtual patient that maintained PaCO 2  levels while significantly reducing peak airway pressures and dynamic alveolar strain in all patients.    Conclusions  Our study supports the proposition that moderately high-frequency respiratory rates can allow more protective ventilation of ARDS patients and highlights the potential role of high-fidelity simulators in computing optimised and personalised ventilator settings for individual patients using this approach.    Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40635-015-0068-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Computational simulation indicates that moderately high-frequency ventilation can allow safe reduction of tidal volumes and airway pressures in ARDS patients