%0 Journal Article %A Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila %A Enrique Diaz-Guzman %A Gustavo A. Heresi %A Robert L. Chatburn %T Alternative modes of mechanical ventilation: A review for the hospitalist %D 2009 %R 10.3949/ccjm.76a.08043 %J Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine %P 417-430 %V 76 %N 7 %X Newer ventilators can be set to modes other than the pressure-control and volume-control modes of older machines. In this paper, the authors review several of these alternative modes (adaptive pressure control, adaptive support ventilation, proportional assist ventilation, airway pressure-release ventilation, biphasic positive airway pressure, and high-frequency oscillatory ventilation), explaining how they work and contrasting their theoretical benefits and the actual evidence of benefit. %U https://www.ccjm.org/content/ccjom/76/7/417.full.pdf