title: Innovations in mechanical ventilation.
abstract: New features of mechanical ventilators are frequently introduced, including new modes, monitoring techniques, and triggering techniques. But new rarely translates into any measureable improvement in outcome. We describe 4 new techniques and attempt to define what is a new invention versus what is innovative-a technique that significantly improves a measurable variable. We describe and review the literature on automated weaning, automated measurement of functional residual capacity, neural triggering, and novel displays of respiratory mechanics.
authors: Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0558, USA. richard.branson@uc.edu
authors: Richard D
authors: RD
authors: Branson
authors: Jay A
authors: JA
authors: Johannigman
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D005652:Functional Residual Capacity / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D015656:Respiratory Mechanics / Q000502:physiology; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D035703:Therapies, Investigational / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012122:Ventilators, Mechanical