TY - JOUR T1 - Alternative modes of mechanical ventilation: A review for the hospitalist JF - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine JO - Cleve Clin J Med SP - 417 LP - 430 DO - 10.3949/ccjm.76a.08043 VL - 76 IS - 7 AU - Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila AU - Enrique Diaz-Guzman AU - Gustavo A. Heresi AU - Robert L. Chatburn Y1 - 2009/07/01 UR - http://www.ccjm.org/content/76/7/417.abstract N2 - 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. ER -