Optimizing gas exchange, avoiding lung injury, and preserving respiratory muscle strength
and endurance are vital therapeutic objectives for managing acute lung injury. Accordingly …

Muscular weakness and muscle wasting may often be observed in critically ill patients on
intensive care units (ICUs) and may present as failure to wean from mechanical ventilation …

Objective: To describe the recommendations of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus
Conference for mechanical ventilation management of pediatric patients with acute …

Mechanical ventilation is the most common life support procedure in the intensive care unit
(ICU). 1 It is used in a full spectrum of acute situations, which share the same primary goals …

Mechanical ventilation [MV] is a life-saving technique delivered to critically ill patients
incapable of adequately ventilating and/or oxygenating due to respiratory or other disease …

Introduction Based on the hypothesis that failure of weaning from mechanical ventilation is
caused by respiratory demand exceeding the capacity of the respiratory muscles, we …

Introduction The objective was to compare the impact of three assistance levels of different
modes of mechanical ventilation; neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA), proportional …

Purpose To determine if, compared to pressure support (PS), neurally adjusted ventilatory
assist (NAVA) reduces patient–ventilator asynchrony in intensive care patients undergoing …

Respiratory rate is one of the key variables that is set and monitored during mechanical
ventilation. As part of increasing efforts to optimize mechanical ventilation, it is prudent to …

Patient-v entilator asynchrony (PVA) is a mismatch between the patient, regarding time, flow,
volume, or pressure demands of the patient respiratory system, and the ventilator, which …