Patients require mechanical ventilatory support when the ventilatory and/or gas exchange
capabilities of their respiratory system fail. This failure can be the result of processes both …

Noninvasive ventilation refers to the delivery of mechanical ventilation to the lungs using
techniques that do not require an endotracheal airway. During the first half of the 20th …

Weaning covers the entire process of liberating the patient from mechanical support and
from the endotracheal tube. Many controversial questions remain concerning the best …

NEW TECHNOLOGY through the ventilator circuit17–19. However, determining intrinsic
PEEP in the clinical setting is not easy17–22. When the inspiratory muscles are active, as …

AIC= assist-control ventilation; APRV= airway pressure release ventilation; ARDS= adult (or
acute) respiratory distress syndrome; auto-PEEP= increase above set PEEP level, in …

To assess physiologic effects of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and positive
end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) during noninvasive pressure support ventilation (PSV) in …

Ventilation–perfusion (V˙ a/Q˙) distributions were evaluated in 24 patients with acute
respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), during airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) …

Study objective To compare the efficacy of standard medical therapy (ST) and noninvasive
mechanical ventilation additional to standard medical therapy in hypercapnic acute …

Study objective To investigate patient-ventilator trigger asynchrony (TA), its prevalence,
physiologic basis, and clinical implications in patients requiring prolonged mechanical …

In 11 ventilator-dependent patients, we undertook a head-to-head comparison of patient-
ventilator interaction during four ventilator modes: assist-control ventilation (ACV) …