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Proportional Assist Ventilation

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Mechanical Ventilation and Weaning

Part of the book series: Update in Intensive Care Medicine ((UICMSOFT,volume 36))

Abstract

Proportional assist ventilation (PAV) is a form of synchronized partial ventilatory support in which the ventilator generates pressure in proportion to the patient’s instantaneous effort, and this proportionality applies from breath to breath as well as continuously throughout each inspiration [1]. In effect, patient effort is amplified, as if the patient has acquired additional inspiratory muscles that remain under the control of the patient’s own respiratory control system (Fig. 3.1).

Supported by the Respiratory Health Network of Centres of Excellence (INSPIRAPLEX) and by the Medical Research Council of Canada Proportional Assist Ventilation and PAV are trademarks of the University of Manitoba

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    Laurent Brochard MD (Professor of Medicine) (Professor of Medicine)

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Younes, M. (2003). Proportional Assist Ventilation. In: Mancebo, J., Net, A., Brochard, L. (eds) Mechanical Ventilation and Weaning. Update in Intensive Care Medicine, vol 36. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56112-2_3

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