HFOV vsHFOV VS. Conventional Ventilation.pptVIP

HFOV vs. Conventional Ventilation Latoya Robinson Julie Ordones Joshua Globke Matthew Heaton Introduction We are students attending Kingwood College researching the safety and hazardous effects of High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) vs. Conventional Mechanical Ventilation (CV) for adult patients with ARDS. Hypothesis We predict that adults with ARDS that are placed on HFOV will have a lower mortality rate as opposed to ARDS patients left on CV. Background High frequency was accidentally discovered by anesthetist P. Lunkenheimer in 1973. (5) In 1980, Bohn also using HFOV disc