PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - A Greenough
TI  - Update on modalities of mechanical ventilators
AID  - 10.1136/fn.87.1.F3
DP  - 2002 Jul 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
PG  - F3--F6
VI  - 87
IP  - 1
4099  - http://fn.bmj.com/content/87/1/F3.short
4100  - http://fn.bmj.com/content/87/1/F3.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed2002 Jul 01; 87
AB  - Recent advances in ventilator technology have often not been confirmed by randomised trials and instead serious shortcomings have been highlighted. Ventilation modes should only be introduced into routine clinical practice when proved efficacious in appropriately designed studies and no adverse outcomes identified by long term follow up.