High frequency ventilation applications in the OR.
High frequency ventilation provides effective gas exchange at frequencies between 60 and 2,400 min-1. It can be potentially useful in the operating room for bronchoscopy, laryngoscopy, airway surgery, general surgery, and microscopic neurosurgery.
D000403:Airway Resistance; D000758:Anesthesia; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000502:physiology; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D009493:Neurosurgery; D011659:Pulmonary Gas Exchange; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D013990:Tidal Volume