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Pressure Controlled Ventilation (PCV): The Ideal Mode of Mechanical Ventilation?

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Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 1998

Part of the book series: Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine ((YEARBOOK,volume 1998))

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Abstract

Pressure controlled ventilation (PCV) has been used extensively in the ventilation of neonates, but only over the last decade has it taken off as an alternative mode of mechanical ventilation for intensivists in adult intensive care units (ICU). PCV (often linked synonymously with inverse ratio ventilation as PC-IRV) was introduced to many as a mode of last resort when problems were occurring with more traditional forms of ventilation. PCV offers a mode of ventilation suited to the most complex ventilatory challenges, including severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), extremes of airflow obstruction and synchrony with a difficult to wean patient.

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  1. Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Route de Lennik 808, B-1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean-Louis Vincent (Clinical Director) (Clinical Director)

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Morley, P. (1998). Pressure Controlled Ventilation (PCV): The Ideal Mode of Mechanical Ventilation?. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 1998. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 1998. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72038-3_36

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