Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation

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Background Although it is a life-saving intervention, mechanical ventilation is associated with many complications ( Box 24-1 ), making timely and safe weaning an important imperative. However, the process of…

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Mechanical Ventilation: Disease-Specific Strategies

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When noninvasive respiratory support is insufficient to achieve adequate gas exchange, insertion of an endotracheal tube and mechanical ventilator support may be necessary. Once it is determined that mechanical ventilation…

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Special Techniques of Respiratory Support

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Introduction The care of premature infants with respiratory failure has advanced considerably over the past decades, but a substantial proportion of very premature infants survive with some degree of respiratory,…

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Non-invasive Respiratory Support

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Noninvasive respiratory support refers to support provided to the nasal airway opening of spontaneously breathing infants in the absence of an endotracheal tube. This support consists of continuous positive airway…

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Tidal Volume-Targeted Ventilation

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As described in Chapter 15 , two fundamentally different approaches to positive pressure ventilation are possible. In pressure-controlled (PC) ventilation, the primary control variable governing gas delivery to the lungs…

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Basic Modes of Synchronized Ventilation

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Introduction The standard mode of ventilation used in newborn infants prior to the availability of synchronized ventilation was known as intermittent mandatory ventilation (IMV). This pressure-controlled, time-cycled mode of ventilation…

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Principles of Lung-Protective Ventilation

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Introduction Respiratory failure is a common and serious clinical condition in newborn infants that is associated with an increased risk of neonatal morbidity and mortality. Although respiratory failure occurs in…

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Oxygen Therapy

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History of the Use of Oxygen in Clinical Medicine Although anecdotal information indicates that oxygen was already known by the Chinese in the thirteenth century, our present knowledge of its…

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Overview of Assisted Ventilation

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Effective mechanical ventilation of newborn infants is a relatively late phenomenon in the care of newborn infants, having evolved within the lifetime of many practitioners active today. The death in…

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