title: Pediatric ventilation outside the operating room.
abstract: Various ventilatory techniques have been developed in recent years to treat severe respiratory disease states in the pediatric population. Techniques and strategies involving the use of conventional ventilation, high frequency ventilation, nitric oxide, partial liquid ventilation, and extracorporeal circulation are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Charney
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Hamid
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; D006611:High-Frequency Jet Ventilation; D006801:Humans; D021061:Liquid Ventilation; D012121:Respiration, Artificial