Ventilatory management in extremely low birth weight infants
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Ventilatory management in extremely low birth weight infants
The improvement in survival in premature infants associated with the evolution of mechanical ventilation has been accompanied by an increase in ventilator induced lung injury. High frequency ventilation has been shown to reduce the incidence of ventilator induced lung injury and hence chronic lung disease in the very low birth weight infant. The evolution in understanding how to best use high f...
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عنوان ژورنال: McGill Journal of Medicine
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1715-8125
DOI: 10.26443/mjm.v9i2.443