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Airway pressure release ventilation: A pediatric case series
Author(s) -
Krishnan Jambunathan,
Morrison Wynne
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
pediatric pulmonology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.866
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1099-0496
pISSN - 8755-6863
DOI - 10.1002/ppul.20550
Subject(s) - medicine , ventilation (architecture) , airway , anesthesia , continuous positive airway pressure , mechanical ventilation , artificial ventilation , positive pressure , lung , respiratory disease , obstructive sleep apnea , mechanical engineering , engineering
Airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) is a relatively new mode of mechanical ventilation (MV) first described in animal studies in 1987 and in humans in 1988. It is a time‐triggered, time‐cycled, pressure‐limited mode where a high level of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is maintained with brief regular releases in pressure, and spontaneous breathing is allowed throughout the cycle. In theory, it is consistent with a lung protective approach while having some hypothetical advantages over HFOV. The use of this mode of ventilation in pediatrics has been limited. The authors describe their experience with this mode of ventilation in a series of pediatric patients. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2007; 42:83–88. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.