… modes that allow spontaneous breathing in patients with acute lung injury (ALI) and acute
… effects of partial ventilatory support on mortality, duration of mechanical ventilation, and both …

… Animals supported with either high-volume strategy had markedly more severe lung injury
compared with animals ventilated with the high-pressure low-volume strategy. Similar findings …

Objectives: To assess the success rate of pressure support ventilation (PSV) in acute lung
injury patients undergoing continuous positive pressure ventilation (CPPV), to study …

… to the mechanical ventilatory support of patients without lung injury has often … ventilatory
support of patients without lung injury must take into account the underlying diseases or injuries …

… -controlled, time-cycled mechanical ventilation (PCV) for 72 h … with a shorter duration of
ventilatory support (APRV Group: … lung units, requiring a shorter duration of ventilatory support …

… also revealed no significant differences in survival without supplemental oxygen or ventilatory
support (HFOV vs conventional ventilation 32% vs 38%; adjusted odds ratio, 0.80; 95% CI, …

… ventilation-related lung injury recently presented in the literature assumes that lungs are
injured … to cause mechanical destruction of the anatomical lung structure. However, numerous …

… affects V/Q matching or the extent of lung injury and edema during the course of
mechanical ventilatory support. Chronic hypercapnia appears to have few notable side effects. …

… lung injury ( 16 ). This study showed that APRV resulted in comparable levels of ventilation
… oxygenation may require increased ventilatory support, which resulted in worse outcome. …

… lung, but both can be dramatic in severe lung injury. In the latter case, studies using in vivo
microscopy (57), lung … of open lung, while measurements of oxygenation support a similar …