Laurie Barclay, MD Aug. 29, 2002
High-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) for premature infants should be reserved to a few select centers, while the others should continue conventional low tidal volume ventilation, according to an editorial in the Aug. 29 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. One study in the same issue shows a small but significant benefit from the high-frequency technique, but another study shows neither benefit nor harm.
“The marked decrease in the number of days before successful extubation and the increase in the number of infants who survived without chronic lung disease in the group assigned to HFOV suggest that HFOV offers a small but significant benefit at experienced centers,” write Sherry E. Courtney, MD, from University Medical Center in Camden, New Jersey, and colleagues. “In such settings, [HFOV] should be considered the first line of ventilatory ssupport in this group of very preterm infants.”
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