Health-care providers are increasingly faced with the possibility of needing to care for
people injured in explosions, but can often, however, feel undertrained for the unique …

ARDS is a clinically heterogeneous syndrome, rather than a distinct disease. This
heterogeneity at least partially explains the difficulty in studying treatments for these patients …

Objectives: Breath-stacking asynchrony during assist-control-mode ventilation may be
associated with increased tidal volume and alveolar pressure that could contribute to …

Objective Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) is a new mode wherein the assistance
is provided in proportion to diaphragm electrical activity (EAdi). We assessed the physiologic …

Background Experimental and clinical studies have shown reduction in intrapulmonary
shunt with improved oxygenation by spontaneous breathing with airway pressure release …

Objectives It is not known if proportional assist ventilation with load-adjustable gain factors
(PAV+) may be used as a mode of support in critically ill patients. The aim of this study was …

Objective: Acute respiratory distress syndrome is characterized by collapse of gravitationally
dependent lung regions that usually diverts tidal ventilation toward nondependent regions …

Purpose Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) is a ventilatory mode that tailors the
level of assistance delivered by the ventilator to the electromyographic activity of the …

Background The aim of our study was to assess the effect of periodic hyperinflations (sighs)
during pressure support ventilation (PSV) on lung volume, gas exchange, and respiratory …

Purpose Patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) requiring extracorporeal
membrane oxygenation (ECMO) usually present very low respiratory system compliance …