RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Airway pressure release ventilation: An alternative mode of mechanical ventilation in acute respiratory distress syndrome
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 101
OP 110
DO 10.3949/ccjm.78a.10032
VO 78
IS 2
A1 Ariel Modrykamien
A1 Robert L. Chatburn
A1 Rendell W. Ashton
YR 2011
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/78/2/101.abstract
AB Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) results in collapse of alveoli and therefore poor oxygenation. In this article, we review airway pressure release ventilation (APRV), a mode of mechanical ventilation that may be useful when, owing to ARDS, areas of the lungs are collapsed and need to be reinflated (“recruited”), avoiding cyclic alveolar collapse and reopening.