In providing care to a patient who is being treated with mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory failure, the nurse understands the patient is at risk of ventilator-induced lung injury that includes which pathophysiological processes? Select all that apply.

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Ventilator-induced lung injury can cause alveolar rupture due to overdistension, increased vascular permeability leading to fluid leakage, inflammatory-cell infiltrates due to the body's response to injury, and pulmonary edema from fluid accumulation. Increased pulmonary vascular resistance is not a direct pathophysiological process of ventilator-induced lung injury.

In Providing Care to a Patient Who Is Being Treated