Mechanical ventilation

AS Slutsky - Chest, 1993 - journal.chestnet.org
AIC= assist-control ventilation; APRV= airway pressure release ventilation; ARDS= adult (or
acute) respiratory distress syndrome; auto-PEEP= increase above set PEEP level, in …

Treatment of ARDS

RG Brower, LB Ware, Y Berthiaume, MA Matthay - Chest, 2001 - Elsevier
Improved understanding of the pathogenesis of acute lung injury (ALI)/ARDS has led to
important advances in the treatment of ALI/ARDS, particularly in the area of ventilator …

Treatment of acute hypoxemic nonhypercapnic respiratory insufficiency with continuous positive airway pressure delivered by a face mask: a randomized controlled …

C Delclaux, E L'Her, C Alberti, J Mancebo, F Abroug… - Jama, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
ContextContinuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is widely used in the belief that it may
reduce the need for intubation and mechanical ventilation in patients with acute hypoxemic …

Management of pulmonary contusion and flail chest: an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma practice management guideline

B Simon, J Ebert, F Bokhari, J Capella… - Journal of Trauma …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Background Despite the prevalence and recognized association of pulmonary contusion
and flail chest (PC-FC) as a combined, complex injury pattern with interrelated …

Consensus conference on mechanical ventilation-January 28–30, 1993 at Northbrook, Illinois, USA

AS Slutsky - Intensive care medicine, 1994 - Springer
Assisted modes of ventilation are those in which part of the breathing pattern is contributed
or initiated by the patient. The work of breathing performed by the patient is never abolished …

Airway pressure release ventilation: theory and practice

PM Frawley, NM Habashi - AACN Advanced Critical Care, 2001 - AACN
Airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) is a relatively new mode of ventilation, that only
became commercially available in the United States in the mid-1990s. Airway pressure …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanical ventilation in acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome

RG Brower, HE Fessler - Clinics in chest medicine, 2000 - Elsevier
Acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) 13 occur in diseases
such as sepsis and severe pneumonia49, 69 that cause diffuse inflammation in the …

[HTML][HTML] Partial ventilatory support modalities in acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome—a systematic review

SM McMullen, M Meade, L Rose, K Burns, S Mehta… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Purpose The efficacy of partial ventilatory support modes that allow spontaneous breathing
in patients with acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is …

New strategies in mechanical ventilation for acute lung injury

H Burchardi - European Respiratory Journal, 1996 - Eur Respiratory Soc
In the fluid-filled lungs of early adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) the dependent
parts are compressed and atelectatic; whereas, the nondependent areas remain aerated …

Airway pressure release ventilation

DJ Dries, JJ Marini - Journal of burn care & research, 2009 - academic.oup.com
As originally described by Stock and Downs, 1, 2 airway pressure release ventilation
(APRV) uses continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) applied at a high level with …