Pediatr Crit Care Me
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Jul 2020
Spontaneous Breathing and Imposed Work During Pediatric Mechanical Ventilation: A Bench Study.
To calculate imposed work of breathing during simulated spontaneous breathing at a given tidal volume across the range of normal length or shortened pediatric endotracheal tube sizes and endotracheal tubes with an intraluminal catheter in situ. ⋯ Calculated imposed work of breathing were not different across the range of endotracheal tube sizes. The low imposed work of breathing values found in this study might be appreciated as clinically irrelevant. Our findings add to the change in reasoning that it is appropriate to perform spontaneous breathing trials without pressure support. Nonetheless, our findings on the measured imposed work of breathing values need to be confirmed in a clinical study.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Jul 2020
Multicenter StudyPrehospital Life-Saving Interventions Performed on Pediatric Patients in a Combat Zone: A Multicenter Prospective Study.
We aimed to describe and evaluate prehospital life-saving interventions performed in a pediatric population in the Afghanistan theater of operations. ⋯ In our study, the most common intervention was vascular access followed by hypothermia prevention and hemorrhage control. The occurrence of missed or incorrectly performed life-saving interventions were rare.