Manipulation of ventilator settings to prevent active expiration against positive pressure inflation.
Open Access
- 1 November 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 60 (11) , 1036-1040
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.60.11.1036
Abstract
Recent publications have suggested that in infants receiving artificial ventilatory support a particular pattern of interaction between spontaneous breaths and ventilator inflations (active expiration against each ventilator inflation) may be important in the production of pneumothoraces. We have looked at patterns of interaction from 47 preterm infants studied on 51 occasions. We found that active expiration against the ventilator occurred on a total of 16 occasions. This pattern was prevented on 14 occasions by altering the ventilator settings. In two other babies, the pattern persisted but neither baby developed a pneumothorax.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
- Calculation of mean airway pressure during neonatal intermittent positive pressure ventilation and high frequency positive pressure ventilationPediatric Pulmonology, 1985
- Inspiratory time and tidal volume during intermittent positive pressure ventilation.Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1985
- PANCURONIUM PREVENTS PNEUMOTHORACES IN VENTILATED PREMATURE BABIES WHO ACTIVELY EXPIRE AGAINST POSITIVE PRESSURE INFLATIONThe Lancet, 1984
- Interaction of spontaneous respiration with artificial ventilation in preterm babiesThe Journal of Pediatrics, 1983
- Prospective clinical comparison of two methods for mechanical ventilation of neonates: Rapid rate and short inspiratory time versus slow rate and long inspiratory timeThe Journal of Pediatrics, 1981