Airway pressure release ventilation versus low tidal volume ventilation for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome/acute lung injury: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is uncertain whether airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) is better than low tidal volume ventilation (LTVV) for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The purpose of this meta-analysis was to compare APRV and LTVV on patients with ARDS.

Methods

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing outcomes in ARDS ventilator therapy with APRV or LTVV were identified using Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), Excerpta Medica Database (EMBASE), Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, and The Chinese Biomedicine Literature Database (SinoMed) from inception to March 2019.

Results

A total of 7 RCTs with a 405 patients were eligible for our meta-ana

SUBMITTER: Zhong X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7812231 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature