Ventilatory management of neonates undergoing surgery. A review of the first 3 years' experience in a neonatal surgical intensive care unit.
The results of the ventilatory management of babies, obtained in the first 3 years of a neonatal surgical intensive care unit, are assessed. Overall mortality figures and detailed examination of the cause of death in individual diagnostic groups support a selective approach to intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV) based mainly on clinical criteria. The adoption of a policy of prophylactic IPPV after operation would achieve virtually no improvement in mortality.
D000005:Abdomen / Q000601:surgery; D006548:Hernia, Diaphragmatic / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D007385:Intermittent Positive-Pressure Ventilation; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration; D011184:Postoperative Period; D011300:Preoperative Care; D014138:Tracheoesophageal Fistula / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery