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01-09-2007 | Pediatric Correspondence
Use of recruitment maneuvers during mechanical ventilation in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units in the Netherlands
Authors:
Feico J. J. Halbertsma, Michiel Vaneker, Johannes G. van der Hoeven
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 9/2007
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Excerpt
Although the beneficial effects of recruitment maneuvers (RM) during conventional mechanical ventilation (CMV) are unclear and the incidence of adverse effects is unknown [
1], RM seem to be widely employed. We investigated the use of RM in all Dutch pediatric (
n = 8) and neonatal (
n = 10) intensive care units. RM were defined as any intervention intended to increase the number of alveoli participating in ventilation. …