I've always thought the debate between airway pressure-release ventilation (APRV) and more conventional modes (mainly variations of assist-control) was focused on 2 questions. First, are you more ...

Recent effort has been made to assess the effectiveness of APRV in comparison to other modes of CMV. APRV has a number of potential physiologic benefits, one of which is allowing patients to breathe ...

In this issue of the Journal, two papers shed some light on these problems, one from Georgetown by Abubakar and Keszler, 6 another from Vanderbilt by Guthrie et al. 7 While neither are large RCTs, ...

Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) synchronizes spontaneous respiratory effort with mechanical ventilation. Electrodes detect the electrical activity of the diaphragm (Edi) and transmit this ...