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British Medical Bulletin 55:806-820 (1999)
© 1999 The British Council

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Strategies for ventilatory support

Bernard Riley

Adult Intensive Care Unit, Queen's Medical Centre, University Hospital Nottingham, UK

Correspondence to Dr Bernard Riley, Adult intensive Care Unit, Queen's Medical Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK

Abstract

Since the introduction of manual positive pressure ventilation during the Copenhagen polio epidemic of 1952, a range of mechanical devices and methods of ventilatory support have been developed to provide life-saving respiratory therapy to critically ill patients. In addition to the development of the equipment hardware to enable effective mechanical ventilation, there has beena gradual realisation that a single mode of ventilation is not universally applicable to all patients, individual pathologies, or to individual patients at various stages in the evolution of their pulmonary pathology. While mechanical ventilation can undoubtedly be life-saving, it can also cause lung damage as a result of its non-physiological method of promoting effective gas exchange. This iatrogenic problem is known as ventilator induced lung injury and, although it may be a problem in any patient requiring mechanical ventilation for any reason, is of particular importance to those patients requiring mechnical ventilation as a consequence of trauma. This chapter describes the range of ventilatory support techniques available, the problem of ventilator induced lung injury with specific reference to trauma patients and offers a strategy for ventilatory in the trauma patient.


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