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Volume Guarantee Ventilation: Effect on Preterm Infants with Frequent Hypoxemia Episodes

Deepak Jain1, Nelson Claure, Carmen D'Ugard

  • 1Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Fla., USA.

Neonatology
|April 19, 2016
PubMed
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Volume guarantee (VG) ventilation modestly reduced hypoxemia episode duration in preterm infants but did not decrease severe events. This mode also lowered the fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) compared to pressure control (PC) ventilation.

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