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- Title
Airway pressure release ventilation as a primary ventilatory mode in acute respiratory distress syndrome.
- Authors
Varpula, T; Valta, P; Niemi, R; Takkunen, O; Hynynen, M; Pettilä, V V
- Abstract
Airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) is a ventilatory mode, which allows unsupported spontaneous breathing at any phase of the ventilatory cycle. Airway pressure release ventilation as compared with pressure support (PS), another partial ventilatory mode, has been shown to improve gas exchange and cardiac output. We hypothesized whether the use of APRV with maintained unsupported spontaneous breathing as an initial mode of ventilatory support promotes faster recovery from respiratory failure in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) than PS combined with synchronized intermittent ventilation (SIMV-group).
- Publication
Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 2004, Vol 48, Issue 6, p722
- ISSN
0001-5172
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.0001-5172.2004.00411.x