• J Clin Monit Comput · Jun 2018

    Case Reports

    Mechanical ventilation guided by electrical impedance tomography in pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome.

    • Jeffrey Dmytrowich, Tanya Holt, Karen Schmid, and Gregory Hansen.
    • Division of Pediatric Intensive Care, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
    • J Clin Monit Comput. 2018 Jun 1; 32 (3): 503-507.

    AbstractMechanical ventilation strategies in pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome (pARDS) continue to advance. Optimizing positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) and ventilation to recruitable lung can be difficult to clinically achieve. This is in part, due to disease evolution, unpredictable changes in lung compliance, and the inability to assess regional tidal volumes in real time at the bedside. Here we report the utilization of thoracic electrical impedance tomography to guide daily PEEP settings and recruitment maneuvers in a child with pARDS.

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