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Review
. 2021 Jul;56(7):1841-1849.
doi: 10.1002/ppul.25354. Epub 2021 Mar 15.

Proportional assist and neurally adjusted ventilation: Clinical knowledge and future trials in newborn infants

Richard Sindelar  1 , Robin L McKinney  2 , Linda Wallström  1 , Martin Keszler  2
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Review

Proportional assist and neurally adjusted ventilation: Clinical knowledge and future trials in newborn infants

Richard Sindelar et al. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2021 Jul.

Abstract

Different types of patient triggered ventilator modes have become the mainstay of ventilation in term and preterm newborn infants. Maintaining spontaneous breathing has allowed for earlier weaning and the additive effects of respiratory efforts combined with pre-set mechanical inflations have reduced mean airway pressures, both of which are important components in trying to avoid lung injury and promote normal lung development. New sophisticated modes of assisted ventilation have been developed during the last decades where the control of ventilator support is turned over to the patient. The ventilator detects the respiratory effort and adjusts ventilatory assistance proportionally to each phase of the respiratory cycle, thus enabling the patient to have full control of the start, the duration and the amount of ventilatory assistance. In this paper we will review the literature on the ventilatory modes of proportional assist ventilation and neurally adjusted ventilatory assistance, examine the different ways the signals are analyzed, propose future studies, and suggest ways to apply these modes in the clinical environment.

Keywords: neurally adjusted ventilation; newborn infants; preterm; proportionally assisted ventilation.

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