• Thorax · Mar 2002

    Review

    Proportional assist ventilation (PAV): a significant advance or a futile struggle between logic and practice?

    • N Ambrosino and A Rossi.
    • Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, IRCCS, Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, Scientific Institute of Gussago, Italy. nambrosino@fsm.it
    • Thorax. 2002 Mar 1; 57 (3): 272-6.

    AbstractProportional assist ventilation is a promising addition to other more conventional modes of mechanical ventilation with the theoretical advantage of improving patient-ventilator interaction. It may also be of use as a diagnostic tool in the control of breathing in mechanically ventilated patients.

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