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 ARDSNet trial of limited tidal volume (TV) has dictated ventilator settings for almost two decades. [1] The premise is fairly simple: If TVs are controlled and plateau pressure is less than 30 cm ...

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, ...

Background The Dräger Babylog 8000 ventilator calculates the delivered pressure from inspiratory and expiratory transducers. It alarms “pressure out of range” when the difference between the ...