:: Volume 16, Issue 2 (7-2014) ::
J Gorgan Univ Med Sci 2014, 16(2): 131-134 Back to browse issues page
Airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) for the treatment of severe life-threatening hypoxia in ARDS patients
Amri Maleh P *
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Fellowship of Critical Care Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran , pamrimaleh@yahoo.com
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Airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) is a new mode of ventilation. APRV is used in the acute respiratory distress syndrome when the low tidal volume strategy was not responding to assisted controlled mandatory ventilation (ACMV). Four cases of acute respiratory distress syndrome and severe life threatening hypoxia with ACMV whom were successfully managed with APRV are reported in this article. Although hypoxemia patients were treated by APRV method but eventually two patients died.
Keywords: ARDS, APRV, ACMV, Mechanical ventilation
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