Recruitment manoeuvres for adults with acute respiratory distress syndrome receiving mechanical ventilation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recruitment manoeuvres involve transient elevations in airway pressure applied during mechanical ventilation to open ('recruit') collapsed lung units and increase the number of alveoli participating in tidal ventilation. Recruitment manoeuvres are often used to treat patients in intensive care who have acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), but the effect of this treatment on clinical outcomes has not been well established. This systematic review is an update of a Cochrane review originally published in 2009.

Objectives

Our primary objective was to determine the effects of recruitment manoeuvres on mortality in adults with acute respiratory distress syndrome.Our secondary objective was to determine, in the same population, the effects of recruitment manoeuvre

SUBMITTER: Hodgson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6464835 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature