High-frequency jet ventilation for differential lung ventilation.
High-frequency jet ventilation using a jet injector located at the right mainstem bronchus was superimposed on standard mechanical ventilation to ventilate the injured lung of a patient with unilateral massive atelectasis secondary to pulmonary hemorrhage. This technique of differential ventilation markedly improved arterial oxygenation in this patient and may prove to be a simpler modality of respiratory support in patients who have respiratory failure from unilateral lung disease.
D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000150:complications; D001261:Pulmonary Atelectasis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000379:methods*