PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila
AU  - Enrique Diaz-Guzman
AU  - Gustavo A. Heresi
AU  - Robert L. Chatburn
TI  - Alternative modes of mechanical ventilation: A review for the hospitalist
AID  - 10.3949/ccjm.76a.08043
DP  - 2009 Jul 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 417--430
VI  - 76
IP  - 7
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/76/7/417.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/76/7/417.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2009 Jul 01; 76
AB  - 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.