Independent high-frequency oscillatory ventilation in the management of asymmetric acute lung injury.
2005
We present a case of independent lung ventilation in an adult with asymmetric acute lung injury. We applied a conventional protective ventilatory strategy to the more homogeneously infiltrated lung and high-frequency oscillatory ventilation to the almost totally collapsed lung, because a conventional protective strategy exposed this lung to plateau pressure more than 30 cm H 2 O, whereas high-frequency oscillatory ventilation provided sufficient gas exchange at safer pressure levels. Analysis of a lung computed tomography scan was used to evaluate the efficacy of the ventilatory strategy.
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