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The rapid development of respiratory therapy techniques in the last 15 years might have come to a standstill. Conventional ventilators are safe, easy to handle and useful in most cases of respiratory failure. Nevertheless this form of ventilatory support has shown its limitations so that a lot of clinicians and engineers have been looking for new ways. High frequency ventilation is going to be an important tool in several ICUs.
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Wendt, M., Freitag, L., Dankwart, F. (1983). Digital Ventilation. In: Scheck, P.A., Sjöstrand, U.H., Smith, R.B. (eds) Perspectives in High Frequency Ventilation. Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6711-3_20
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