title: [Neonatal mechanical ventilation. Experience in 259 cases (author's transl)].
abstract: Results obtained in a group of 295 newborn infants who where mechanically ventilated are exposed. Special emphasis is laid on the 104 patients with IRDS. This disease represented the 40% of all causes of respiratory insufficiency leading to mechanical ventilation, and 60% of all the primary respiratory causes. The overall mortality rate of ventilated patients was 77%, decreasing from a high 86% to 69% in the period studied. In patients ventilated because of IRDS, mortality decreased from 86% in 1974 to 55.8% in 1978. That of all patients with IRDS decreased likewise from 57% to 30%. Current concepts in neonatal mechanical ventilation are reviewed.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation; D012127:Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D013030:Spain
vernacular_title: Ventilación mecánica neonatal. Presentación de 259 casos.