title: High frequency ventilation.
abstract: What is high frequency ventilation? Is it useful or just another transatlantic fad? Apart from appearing to break all the rules of physiology, this technique has definite advantages over conventional ventilation in certain areas and great potential in others.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011653:Pulmonary Diffusing Capacity; D011659:Pulmonary Gas Exchange; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D012126:Respiratory Dead Space; D013990:Tidal Volume