There is no evidence that pressure control ventilation is superior to volume ventilation in patients with ARDS. This statement assumes that the tidal volumes being used are in line with the recent ...

The chief reason that patients are admitted to an intensive care unit is to receive ventilatory support. In this article, I update the basic principles of mechanical ventilation, which I reviewed in ...

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Medical Director, Adult Emergency Services, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, ...

Continuous airflow measurements during anesthesia monitoring, intensive care treatment, and in clinical and ambulatory environments provide important information for the assessment of ...

Patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) require mechanical ventilation to maintain arterial oxygenation, but this treatment may produce secondary lung injury. High-frequency ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Liberation time and mortality in the proportional-assist ventilation group did not differ from the ...

GE has warned users of the Carestation platform not to use the “volume control ventilation mode” until the device is corrected. When in VCV mode, certain devices may fail to provide effective ...