Clinical Review: Ventilatory Strategies for Obstetric, Brain-injured and Obese Patients

Overview

Journal Crit Care

Specialty Critical Care

Date 2009 Mar 18

PMID 19291279

Citations 8

Authors

Stephen E Lapinsky

Juan Gabriel Posadas-Calleja

Iain McCullagh

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Abstract

The ventilatory management of patients with acute respiratory failure is supported by good evidence, aiming to reduce lung injury by pressure limitation and reducing the duration of ventilatory support by regular assessment for discontinuation. Certain patient groups, however, due to their altered physiology or disease-specific complications, may require some variation in usual ventilatory management. The present manuscript reviews the ventilatory management in three special populations, namely the patient with brain injury, the pregnant patient and the morbidly obese patient.

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