In this issue of the Journal, two papers shed some light on these problems, one from Georgetown by Abubakar and Keszler, 6 another from Vanderbilt by Guthrie et al. 7 While neither are large RCTs, ...

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 ...

Recent effort has been made to assess the effectiveness of APRV in comparison to other modes of CMV. APRV has a number of potential physiologic benefits, one of which is allowing patients to breathe ...

The primary exposure variable was mode of mechanical ventilation. To compare the effectiveness of different ventilatory modes, patients were divided into 3 groups according to the ventilation mode ...

A seven-year international, multi-centre clinical trial led by London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute (LHSCRI) and St. Michael's Hospital, a site of Unity Health Toronto, has found that a ...