Allows spontaneous breathing with automatic adjustments of mandatory ventilation to the meet the patient's preset minimum minute volume requirement.
He has numerous reports of drowning victims who resumed spontaneous breathing only after a Heimlich manuever was done to drain their lungs.
Specifically, patients increase the minute ventilation by spontaneous breathing, rather than patient-initiated ventilator breaths.
The key indicator of brain function under these guidleines is whether there is spontaneous breathing within three minutes after the respirator is turned off.
The pre-botzinger complex also contains pacemaker cells which initiate spontaneous breathing.
Neonatal volume guarantee ventilation: effects of spontaneous breathing, triggered and untriggered inflations.
Effects of non-synchronised nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation on spontaneous breathing in preterm infants.
Twenty two patients managed with spontaneous breathing of 28-40% oxygen and the others needed mechanical ventilation.
In medicine, mechanical ventilation is a method to mechanically assist or replace spontaneous breathing.
If the spinal cord is transected above C3, then spontaneous breathing is not possible.