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Conventional Mechanical Ventilation

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Respiratory failure is one of the most common reasons for admission to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), and about half of the patients admitted to PICU need ventilator support. Development of mechanical ventilation has dramatically changed the outcome of pediatric respiratory failure from a commonly fatal condition to a one with very low mortality. Mechanical ventilation has evolved from negative pressure ventilation to modern positive ventilation delivered with multiple options of ventilation modes. This chapter reviews the basic principles of conventional mechanical ventilation and the pathophysiological impact of ventilation to provide readers with essential keys for the management of children with respiratory failure.

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  • 28 April 2022

    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53363-2

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  1. Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Department of Pediatrics, CHU Sainte-Justine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Guillaume Emeriaud & Philippe Jouvet

  2. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Christopher Newth & Robinder Khemani

  3. Department of Pediatrics, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Christopher Newth & Robinder Khemani

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  1. Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA

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  2. Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Janet Weis Children’s Hospital, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, USA

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  3. Department of Pediatrics/Divisions of Pediatric Critical and Palliative Care Medicine, Janet Weis Children’s Hospital at Geisinger, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Danville, PA, USA

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  4. Department of Pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters, Norfolk, VA, USA

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Emeriaud, G., Newth, C., Khemani, R., Jouvet, P. (2021). Conventional Mechanical Ventilation. In: Lucking, S.E., Maffei, F.A., Tamburro, R.F., Zaritsky, A. (eds) Pediatric Critical Care . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53363-2_12

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