Pediatr Crit Care Me
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Sep 2018
Observational StudyLeak Compensation During Volume Guarantee With the Dräger Babylog VN500 Neonatal Ventilator.
To investigate how compensating for endotracheal tube leaks by targeting the leak-compensated tidal volume affects measured physiologic and ventilator variables during neonatal mechanical ventilation. ⋯ During volume guarantee ventilation with a Dräger VN500 ventilator, without leak compensation the expired tidal volume declined after 50% leak. With leak compensation, the tidal volume was maintained even with a large leak. With leak compensation, there was a more stable peak inflating pressure, although the PCO2 was slightly higher.