Mechanical Ventilation in Respiratory Insufficiency in Infants

High Reliability Organizing (HRO) is the Extension of Neonatology during Pandemic COVID-19

“…Physicians could only support compassionate death, for example, an infant with hypoplastic left heart syndrome or extremely low birth weight. Conjuring new possible worlds inspired Neonatologists to gain life for these infants (53)(54)(55)(56). To make these possible worlds become an actual world for these infants and their families, Neonatologists traversed a liminal environment.…”

Artificial ventilation, prolonged endotracheal intubation and tracheostomy in paediatric surgery

“…The figure obtained from the spirometer must be corrected to allow for compression of the gas in the patient circuit. Gas compressed in the circuit on inspiration will re-expand during expiration when the pressure falls and contribute with the expired gas from the patient to the reading on the spirometer (Glover, 1965). The volume of the circuit, the peak inspiratory pressure reached in the circuit, and the frequency of ventilation determine the size of this compressibility factor.…”

The changing concepts of tracheostomy

“…This approach to the management of respiratory insufficiency due to poliomyelitis was so successful that it was extended to other respiratory problems in adults and subsequently in infants and children (Swensson, 1962;Aberdeen, 1965;Glover, 1965). The advantages accruing from this fairly simple operative procedure were found to be:…”