Mechanical ventilation and the total artificial heart: optimal ventilator trigger to avoid post-operative autocycling - a case series and literature review

Many patients with end-stage cardiomyopathy are now being implanted with Total Artificial Hearts (TAHs). We have observed individual cases of post-operative mechanical ventilator autocycling with a flow trigger, and subsequent loss of autocycling after switching to a pressure trigger. These observat...

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Autores principales: Shoham, Allen B, Patel, Bhavesh, Arabia, Francisco A, Murray, Michael J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
Materias:
Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2893170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20478064
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-39

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2893170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20478064
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-39

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