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INTRODUCTION
Author(s) -
Eman Ali Mahmoud Mohammad,
Hala Mohamed Mohamed,
Wafaa Khalil Ibrahim
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
acta anaesthesiologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1399-6576
pISSN - 0001-5172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-6576.1963.tb00220.x
Subject(s) - medicine , citation , library science , information retrieval , computer science
Controlled ventilation has not been clearly defined. The general conception of it implies, inter alia, a complete taking over of the spontaneous ventilation by manual or mechanical insufflation ventilation. A basic assumption is here that the patient is apnoeic through paralysis of the respiratory muscles or through removal of the carbon-dioxide stimulus on the respiration, or has been given muscle relaxants or drugs depressing the respiratory centres (cf. S. C. CULLEN (1946) ; W. D. WYLIE and H. C. CHURCHILL-DAVIDSON (1961)). By controlled ventilation the author means complete substitution of the sfintancow ventilation of the patient by taking over both the ventilatory work and control of the adcquucy of the ventilation. It is not assumed that the patient is given muscle relaxants, nor that he is made apnoeic by hyperventilation, nor that he is given drugs depressing the respiratory centres. By prolonged controlled ventilation the author means that the period of continuous treatment is extended over some hours up to weeks or months.