title: Proportional assist ventilation (PAV): a significant advance or a futile struggle between logic and practice?
abstract: Proportional assist ventilation is a promising addition to other more conventional modes of mechanical ventilation with the theoretical advantage of improving patient-ventilator interaction. It may also be of use as a diagnostic tool in the control of breathing in mechanically ventilated patients.
authors.affiliation: Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, IRCCS, Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, Scientific Institute of Gussago, Italy. nambrosino@fsm.it
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authors.lastname: Ambrosino
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authors.lastname: Rossi
mesh_terms: D001469:Barotrauma; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration / Q000379:methods; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000628:therapy*; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000628:therapy*