title: Diagram for easy volume setting of an infant ventilator.
abstract: A pressure-volume diagram with isocompliance lines allows quick, accurate volume setting of the piston-driven infant ventilator Bourns LS. A line parallel with the machine compliance line and an intercept on the ordinate equal to the tidal volume, serves as a guideline for initial volume setting and subsequent adaptation according to the patient's lung compliance. This diagram is particularly useful when the lung compliance is low; changes consistently during controlled ventilation.
mesh_terms: D001997:Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D006819:Hyaline Membrane Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007384:Intermittent Positive-Pressure Breathing; D008170:Lung Compliance; D008954:Models, Biological; D013990:Tidal Volume; D012122:Ventilators, Mechanical / Q000592:standards*