Advances in the Management of Respiratory Failure Advanced Strategies for Mechanical Ventilation in Severe Acute Respiratory Failure

A number of strategies exist to improve gas exchange during mechanical ventilation. Any strategy used, however, should have as a basic tenet of its use the principles of lung rest, the reduction of the risk of ventilator associated lung injury, and avoidance of hemodynamic compromise. The techniques presented above are intended to meet these goals and represent measures that can be applied without significant additional resources.