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Rapid control of severe hypercapnia with high frequency oscillatory ventilation
Author(s) -
TATMAN ANDREW,
MOK QUEN,
JAMES IAN,
TASKER ROBERT C.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
pediatric anesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.704
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1460-9592
pISSN - 1155-5645
DOI - 10.1111/j.1460-9592.1995.tb00299.x
Subject(s) - medicine , hypercapnia , high frequency ventilation , ventilation (architecture) , meconium aspiration syndrome , anesthesia , refractory (planetary science) , mechanical ventilation , meconium , acidosis , pregnancy , mechanical engineering , fetus , biology , engineering , genetics , physics , astrobiology
SUMMARY We present a case report of a neonate with severe meconium aspiration syndrome, complicated by severe refractory hypercapnia, who was successfully rescued with high frequency oscillatory ventilation, when maximal conventional ventilation had failed.