• Chest · Feb 1986

    Case Reports

    Improved oxygenation and lower peak airway pressure in severe adult respiratory distress syndrome. Treatment with inverse ratio ventilation.

    • M J Gurevitch, J Van Dyke, E S Young, and K Jackson.
    • Chest. 1986 Feb 1;89(2):211-3.

    AbstractTwo patients with the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) were placed on pressure-controlled inverse-ratio ventilation (IRV) when their condition deteriorated despite optimal treatment with intermittent mandatory ventilation and positive end-expiratory pressure. In the first case, high peak airway pressure was reduced by 50 percent with the institution of IRV. In the second, refractory hypoxemia was eliminated by using an inspiratory-to-expiratory ratio of 4:1. These cases show that IRV may offer certain advantages in the treatment of severe ARDS.

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