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Review
. 2025 Jun 1;37(3):223-232.
doi: 10.1097/MOP.0000000000001449. Epub 2025 Feb 12.

Tailoring ventilation and respiratory management in pediatric critical care: optimizing care with precision medicine

Francis-Olivier Beauchamp  1 , Julie Thériault, Michaël Sauthier
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Review

Tailoring ventilation and respiratory management in pediatric critical care: optimizing care with precision medicine

Francis-Olivier Beauchamp et al. Curr Opin Pediatr. .

Abstract

Purpose of review: Critically ill children admitted to the intensive care unit frequently need respiratory care to support the lung function. Mechanical ventilation is a complex field with multiples parameters to set. The development of precision medicine will allow clinicians to personalize respiratory care and improve patients' outcomes.

Recent findings: Lung and diaphragmatic ultrasound, electrical impedance tomography, neurally adjusted ventilatory assist ventilation, as well as the use of monitoring data in machine learning models are increasingly used to tailor care. Each modality offers insights into different aspects of the patient's respiratory system function and enables the adjustment of treatment to better support the patient's physiology. Precision medicine in respiratory care has been associated with decreased ventilation time, increased extubation and ventilation wean success and increased ability to identify phenotypes to guide treatment and predict outcomes. This review will focus on the use of precision medicine in the setting of pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome, asthma, bronchiolitis, extubation readiness trials and ventilation weaning, ventilation acquired pneumonia and other respiratory tract infections.

Summary: Precision medicine is revolutionizing respiratory care and will decrease complications associated with ventilation. More research is needed to standardize its use and better evaluate its impact on patient outcomes.

Keywords: acute respiratory distress syndrome; pediatric intensive care; precision medicine; respiratory care; ventilation.

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