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3 - Mechanical Ventilation

from Section 1 - General Critical Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2023

By
Jake Hoyne  and
Joshua Kolikof
Edited by
Kaushal Shah  and
Jarone Lee
Edited in association with
Clark G. Owyang  and
Benjamin Christian Renne
Kaushal Shah
Affiliation:
Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York
Jarone Lee
Affiliation:
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Clark G. Owyang
Affiliation:
Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York
Benjamin Christian Renne
Affiliation:
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
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Summary

Mechanical ventilation is the utilization of positive pressure to ventilate a patient via an endotracheal tube or tracheostomy tube. Mechanical ventilation drastically alters normal respiratory physiology. We normally breathe by generating negative pressure in the thoracic cavity, while mechanical ventilation uses positive pressure to drive the flow of gas into the lungs.

Keywords

mechanical ventilationventilatorbarotraumavolutraumaatelectraumaintubationventilator-associated pneumoniatidal volumes
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Practical Emergency Resuscitation and Critical Care , pp. 31 - 38
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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References

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network. Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome. N Engl J Med 2000;342:1301–1308.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Weingart, S. Dominating the vent: Part I. EMCrit Blog 2010 [updated May 24, 2010; cited August 1, 2012]. Available from: http://emcrit.org/lectures/vent-part-1/ [last accessed February 14, 2023].Google Scholar

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