Driving pressure during proportional assist ventilation: an observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

During passive mechanical ventilation, the driving pressure of the respiratory system is an important mediator of ventilator-induced lung injury. Monitoring of driving pressure during assisted ventilation, similar to controlled ventilation, could be a tool to identify patients at risk of ventilator-induced lung injury. The aim of this study was to describe driving pressure over time and to identify whether and when high driving pressure occurs in critically ill patients during assisted ventilation.

Methods

Sixty-two patients fulfilling criteria for assisted ventilation were prospectively studied. Patients were included when the treating physician selected proportional assist ventilation (PAV+), a mode that estimates respiratory system compliance. In these patients

SUBMITTER: Vaporidi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6314935 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature