The key development since invasive positive pressure ventilation replaced the iron lung has
been the development of the servo-controlled valve, or electronic ventilator. This has made …

Newer ventilators can be set to modes other than the pressure-control and volume-control
modes of older machines. In this paper, the authors review several of these alternative …

Modern mechanical ventilators are more complex than those first developed in the 1950s.
Newer ventilation modes can be difficult to understand and implement clinically, although …

Numerous pressure modes are currently available on ventilators. The application of
microprocessor technology has resulted in sophisticated mode options that are very …

Advances in microprocessor technology have resulted in increasing sophistication of
mechanical ventilators. The other side of the sword of sophistication is complexity. The array …

Mechanical ventilation is one of the most commonly applied interventions in intensive care
units. Despite its life-saving role, mechanical ventilation is associated with additional risks to …

Clinical optimization of patient-ventilator interaction can be obtained only through
continuous matching of the triggering, flow delivering, and cycling functions of the ventilator …

Mechanical ventilators have evolved from basic machines to complicated, electronic,
microprocessing engines. Over the last 2 decades, ventilator capabilities and options for …

The article focuses on a bench study conducted by E. Mireles-Cabodevila and RL Chatburn
which discovers that adaptive pressure control (APC) algorithms differ between ventilators in …

Positive pressure mechanical ventilators have evolved over the last several decades from
simple high pressure gas regulators to sophisticated microprocessor systems controlling …