2. Pressure control ventilation (PCV) recruitment maneuver In contrast to a SI, ventilating patients with increased plateau pressures and increased PEEP levels has also been used as a recruiting maneuver. In this case, the patient is temporarily placed on higher ventilator pressures than would be used to ventilate a patient otherwise. A combination of PEEP and plateau pressures helps to recruit atelectatic alveoli. Pressure control ventilation is the mode of choice in such patients because in it the plateau pressure is set, and therefore kept constant (in contrast to volume controlled ventilation). Thus, a known plateau pressure (which participates in lung recruitment) is delivered. Following are the salient studies utilizing a PCV recruitment maneuver. ? Athanasios "TLC maneuver" in anesthetized children? Small study treating intraoperative atelectisis.