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Recommendations for mechanical ventilation of critically ill children from the Paediatric Mechanical Ventilation Consensus Conference (PEMVECC).

Authors :
Kneyber, Martin
Luca, Daniele
Calderini, Edoardo
Jarreau, Pierre-Henri
Javouhey, Etienne
Lopez-Herce, Jesus
Hammer, Jürg
Macrae, Duncan
Markhorst, Dick
Medina, Alberto
Pons-Odena, Marti
Racca, Fabrizio
Wolf, Gerhard
Biban, Paolo
Brierley, Joe
Rimensberger, Peter
Source :
Intensive Care Medicine; Dec2017, Vol. 43 Issue 12, p1764-1780, 17p
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

<bold>Purpose: </bold>Much of the common practice in paediatric mechanical ventilation is based on personal experiences and what paediatric critical care practitioners have adopted from adult and neonatal experience. This presents a barrier to planning and interpretation of clinical trials on the use of specific and targeted interventions. We aim to establish a European consensus guideline on mechanical ventilation of critically children.<bold>Methods: </bold>The European Society for Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care initiated a consensus conference of international European experts in paediatric mechanical ventilation to provide recommendations using the Research and Development/University of California, Los Angeles, appropriateness method. An electronic literature search in PubMed and EMBASE was performed using a combination of medical subject heading terms and text words related to mechanical ventilation and disease-specific terms.<bold>Results: </bold>The Paediatric Mechanical Ventilation Consensus Conference (PEMVECC) consisted of a panel of 15 experts who developed and voted on 152 recommendations related to the following topics: (1) general recommendations, (2) monitoring, (3) targets of oxygenation and ventilation, (4) supportive measures, (5) weaning and extubation readiness, (6) normal lungs, (7) obstructive diseases, (8) restrictive diseases, (9) mixed diseases, (10) chronically ventilated patients, (11) cardiac patients and (12) lung hypoplasia syndromes. There were 142 (93.4%) recommendations with "strong agreement". The final iteration of the recommendations had none with equipoise or disagreement.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>These recommendations should help to harmonise the approach to paediatric mechanical ventilation and can be proposed as a standard-of-care applicable in daily clinical practice and clinical research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
03424642
Volume :
43
Issue :
12
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Intensive Care Medicine
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
126562513
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-017-4920-z