Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome is a highly fatal emergency. Severe dyspnea could lead to a re-spiratory crisis. The author provided care for a 67-year-old man who was intubated due to acute respi-ratory failure in November 2020. The ventilation strategies for lung protection strategies (LPS) were not as effective as expected. Even when using the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) life support system, hypoxemia still presented and deteriorated rapidly. This incident gave the author the motivation to solve this medical dilemma. An evidence-based approach was adopted to assess the ef-fectiveness of the staircase recruitment maneuver for oxygenation. The clinical treatment using PICO interpretations are as follows P: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), I: Staircase recruitment maneuver (SRM), C: Usual care, O: PaO2/FiO2 ratio (PFR). Databases such as Cochrane Library, PubMed, CINAHL, and Airiti Library were searched. Five randomized controlled trial studies that met the screening criteria were included, and a meta-analysis was conducted after a systematic review. A total of 1,229 patients were analyzed in the meta-analysis, which showed that SRM can improve PFR and increase oxygenation. The effect size was 55.63 (95% CI [44.92, 66.33]). According to the re-search results applied to this case, SRM was performed in pressure control mode on the second day of hospitalization. When the driving pressure was set at 15cmH2O, the positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) was titrated from 10cmH2O, increasing by 5cmH2O every 40 seconds. Tracing the patient’s arterial blood oxygenation, the PFR increased from 174 to 318 mmHg, and the patient was successful-ly weaned from the ventilator. Therefore, ventilators are recommended for ARDS patients with severe hypoxemia under LPS. SRM maybe considered to improve the patient’s oxygenation, allowing for ear-ly weaning from the ventilator.