Ventilatory strategies for the critically ill infant and child

Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am. 1999 Dec;11(4):501-9.

Abstract

As newer modes of mechanical ventilation and adjuncts to ventilation continue to be developed and studied, pediatric critical care practitioners are going to have many exciting options for the treatment of the critically ill infant and child. All who provide care to these critically ill patients must continue to evaluate these varied ventilatory strategies.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Critical Illness / therapy*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Intensive Care, Neonatal / methods*
  • Respiration, Artificial / adverse effects
  • Respiration, Artificial / instrumentation
  • Respiration, Artificial / methods*
  • Respiration, Artificial / nursing
  • Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn / therapy*
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / therapy*