Mechanical Ventilation of Infants
- 1 March 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Anesthesiology
- Vol. 29 (2) , 365-370
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00000542-196803000-00021
Abstract
Compression volume of the Emerson Postoperative Ventilator was determined at 2 different ventilator phasing characteristics, both by plugging the apparatus outflow orifice and by ventilation of the model lung-thorax system. The results of the 2 methods were similar and indicated a compression volume of 2.8 ml/cm water for this ventilator when the humidifer was 60% filled, as it commonly is used clinically. The presence of such a large compression volume is undesirable when this adult-type ventilator is used for infants and small children or for investigations of certain physiologic respiratory parameters during mechanical ventilation. A modified apparatus was constructed with negligible compression volume.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Mechanics of Respiration in Apneic Anesthetized InfantsAnesthesiology, 1966
- THE ACTION OF ADIABATIC EFFECTS ON THE COMPLIANCE OF AN ARTIFICIAL THORAXBritish Journal of Anaesthesia, 1965