Therefore, it appears that an optimal work range during mechanical ventilation may exist [37].
Despite evidence that the use of specific interventions can decrease morbidity and mortality for patients receiving mechanical ventilation, a gap exists between best evidence and practice.
Although monitoring technologies can provide vast amounts of information before, during, and after liberation from mechanical ventilation, little data exists on how to maximally harness even routinely monitored, basic physiologic parameters.
This is particularly true for specialized ICU services such as mechanical ventilation, where no information exists specifically for rural hospitals.
A significant interaction with mechanical ventilation was found to exist for the factors age, highest heart rate, PaO2, PaCO2, pH and APACHE II score.
Mechanical ventilation could be required.
It was necessary to record these variables because no reference standard exists for mechanical ventilation initiation when reviewed retrospectively.
The fact that there was still significant variation among hospitals in the use of surfactant when we used the ICD-9-CM diagnosis code to identify infants with RDS and when we restricted the population to only those infants requiring mechanical ventilation suggests that true variation exists.
Significant synergistic effects among empiric antibiotics, mechanical ventilation, and central venous catheters may exist, given these processes' closely related clinical utilization.
This is particularly true for specialized ICU services such as mechanical ventilation, where little, if any, information exists specifically for rural hospitals.
