Delivering Low Tidal Volume With Anesthesia and ICU Ventilators in a Neonatal Lung Model.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mechanical ventilation of the neonate requires ventilators than can deliver precise and accurate tidal volume (V_T) and PEEP to avoid lung injury. Due to small neonatal V_T and the disproportionate effect of endotracheal tube leak in these patients, accomplishing precise and accurate V_T delivery is difficult. Whereas neonatal ICU ventilators are validated in this population, thorough studies testing the performance of anesthesia ventilators in delivering small V_T in neonates are lacking.

Methods

Three anesthesia ventilators, Dräger Apollo, GE Avance, and Getinge Flow-i; and 2 ICU ventilators, Medtronic PB980 and Nihon Kohden NKV-550, were tested under volume control mode at V_T of 5, 20, 40, and 60 mL. Three comb

SUBMITTER: Medeiros KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10027158 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature