Erschienen in:
01.10.2003 | Editorial
Is high frequency oscillation the best lung protective ventilatory approach for ARDS?
verfasst von:
Robert M. Kacmarek
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 10/2003
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Excerpt
The first patent for a high frequency oscillator (HFO) was issued to Jack Emerson, the designer of the Emerson ventilators, in 1959 [
1]. Subsequently, interest in the use of high frequency ventilation has gone through a number of cycles of increased and decreased enthusiasm for the approach. Over the last 10 years, the impact of the mechanical ventilator on lung injury has been studied extensively and the approach used to provide conventional mechanical ventilation has been shown to have an impact on outcome in two randomized controlled trials [
2,
3]. This increased interest in the impact of mechanical ventilation on lung injury has again focused attention on HFO. …