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Advances in mechanical ventilation: high frequency ventilation
1Department of Neonatology, National Children's Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Early Human Development
|June 1, 1992
Abstract:
High frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) is a technique in which a small tidal volume of airway gas is vibrated by moving a piston at an extremely fast rate (15 Hz). By this technique infants are ventilated in less traumatic ways compared to the conventional mechanical ventilation (CMV). The control study performed in Japan showed the efficacy and safety of HFOV compared to CMV.