Basic Mechanical Ventilation Principles for Common Diseases
Journal Title: Journal Of Pediatric Critical Care - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Mechanical ventilation is a complex technique utilizing sophisticated and sometimes complex equipment. It can keep the most severely ill patients alive but simultaneously it can damage the lung and generate other unwanted complications. Mechanical ventilation can be seen as highly effi cient technology but with a narrow therapeutic window. Although the technique has been available for children for last several decades, there are many gaps in knowledge of how to best apply the technique in specifi c situations. There is lack of data in Mechanical ventilation in the pediatric population on how to ventilate children. Much of the knowledge applied to children in this area is handed down from adult intensive care research. The key to improving our application of mechanical ventilation is age and disease specifi c research and an increased understanding of safe ventilation practices leading to least disturbance in physiology and minimizing lung injury.
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Praveen Khilnani, Bhaskar Saikia
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- DOI 10.21304/2015.0201.00050
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