• D Kern, C Larcher, N Cottron, D Ait Aissa, R Fesseau, X Alacoque, F Delort, P Masquère, E Agnès, G Visnadi, and O Fourcade.
• EA 4564 MATN, IFR 150, département d'anesthésie et de réanimation, CHRU Toulouse Purpan, place du Docteur-Baylac, TSA 40031, 31059 Toulouse cedex 9, France. Electronic address: kern.d@chu-toulouse.fr.
• Ann Fr Anesth Reanim. 2013 Dec 1;32(12):e199-203.

AbstractThe technology of anesthesia ventilators has substantially progressed during last years. The choice of a pediatric anesthesia ventilator needs to be led by multiple parameters: requirement, technical (pneumatic performance, velocity of halogenated or oxygen delivery), cost (purchase, in operation, preventive and curative maintenance), reliability, ergonomy, upgradability, and compatibility. The demonstration of the interest of pressure support mode during maintenance of spontaneous ventilation anesthesia makes this mode essential in pediatrics. In contrast, the financial impact of target controlled inhalation of halogenated has not be studied in pediatrics. Paradoxically, complex and various available technologies had not been much prospectively studied. Anesthesia ventilators performances in pediatrics need to be clarified in further clinical and bench test studies.Copyright © 2013 Société française d’anesthésie et de réanimation (Sfar). Published by Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.

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