Update on modalities of mechanical ventilators.
Recent advances in ventilator technology have often not been confirmed by randomised trials and instead serious shortcomings have been highlighted. Ventilation modes should only be introduced into routine clinical practice when proved efficacious in appropriately designed studies and no adverse outcomes identified by long term follow up.
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Children Nationwide Regional Neonatal Intensive Care, College Hospital, London SE5 9RS, UK. anne.greenough@kcl.ac.uk
D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D007385:Intermittent Positive-Pressure Ventilation / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D012122:Ventilators, Mechanical