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A Novel Rescue Technique for Difficult Intubation and Difficult Ventilation
Published on: January 17, 2011
Anesthesia ventilators: better options for children
Stephen Stayer1, Olutoyin Olutoye
1Pediatric Anesthesiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Sstayer@bcm.tmc.edu
Abstract:
Mechanical ventilation of pediatric patients in the operating room is challenging. Infants require significantly smaller tidal volumes than adults and changes in delivered volume that would be clinically insignificant for an adult patient, can produce unintended hyper- or hypoventilation in children. The consequences of these unintended ventilation changes can produce hypoxemia, hypercarbia, or barotrauma. This article discusses unique aspects of pediatric ventilation in the operating room, limitations of traditional anesthesia machine technology, the features of modern anesthesia ventilators that circumvent these limitations, and presents several comparison studies.
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