title: Hemodynamic response to high-frequency ventilation in infants following cardiac surgery.
abstract: The hemodynamic response to high-frequency ventilation was compared with conventional ventilation in six infants following cardiac surgery. While undergoing high-frequency ventilation, adequate gas exchange was maintained in all infants. High frequency ventilation allowed a reduction of peak ventilatory pressure at the airway opening by 19%, and peak tracheal pressure by 42%. No clinically important changes in heart rate, systemic and pulmonary arterial pressure, cardiac index, or systemic and pulmonary vascular resistance were noted when high-frequency ventilation was compared with conventional ventilation.
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D006339:Heart Rate; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000601:surgery; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology; D011184:Postoperative Period; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000601:surgery; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014655:Vascular Resistance