Abstract
Mechanical ventilation is frequently used in pediatric patients to ensure adequate gas exchange, ameliorate respiratory distress, and enable resolution of pulmonary or other disorders. However, a number of important challenges remain in the pediatric population because there is a paucity of large-scale randomized controlled trials to generate data and inform clinical practice. This review summarizes a number of discoveries and advances that have been made in pediatric mechanical ventilation from June 2017 to December 2018.
Footnotes
- Correspondence: Craig D Smallwood PhD RRT, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Bader Building 634, Boston, MA 02115. E-mail: craig.smallwood{at}childrens.harvard.edu.
Dr Smallwood discloses relationships with Ventec Life Systems and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals. Dr Davis discloses a relationship with Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals.
Dr Smallwood presented a version of this paper at the Year in Review of the AARC Congress 2018, held December 4-7, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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