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Artificial ventilation
Respiratory therapist examining a mechanically ventilated patient on an Intensive Care Unit.
Other namesartificial respiration
Specialtypulmonary

Artificial ventilation or respiration is when a machine assists in a metabolic process to exchange gases in the body by pulmonary ventilation, external respiration, and internal respiration.[1] A machine called a ventilator provides the person air manually by moving air in and out of the lungs when an individual is unable to breathe on their own. The ventilator prevents the accumulation of carbon dioxide so that the lungs don't collapse due to the low pressure.[2][3] The use of artificial ventilation can be traced back to the seventeenth century. There are three ways of exchanging gases in the body: manual methods, mechanical ventilation, and neurostimulation.[4]

Here are some key words used throughout the article. The process of forcing air into and out of the lungs is known as ventilation. The process by which oxygen is taken in by the bloodstream is called oxygenation. Lung compliance is the capacity of the lungs to contract and expand. The obstruction of airflow via the respiratory tract is known as airway resistance. The amount of ventilated air that is not involved in gas exchange is known as dead-space ventilation.[5][tone]

Types

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Manual methods

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Further information: Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

Pulmonary ventilation is done by manual insufflation of the lungs either by the rescuer blowing into the patient's lungs (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation), or by using a mechanical device. Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation is also part of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) making it an essential skill for first aid. In some situations, mouth to mouth is also performed separately, for instance in near-drowning and opiate overdoses.[6] The performance of mouth to mouth on its own is now limited in most protocols to health professionals, whereas lay first aiders are advised to undertake full CPR in any case where the patient is not breathing. This method of insufflation has been proved more effective than methods which involve mechanical manipulation of the patient's chest or arms, such as the Silvester method.[7]

Mechanical ventilation

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Main article: Mechanical ventilation

Mechanical ventilation is a method to mechanically assist or replace spontaneous breathing.[8] This involves the use of ventilator assisted by a registered nurse, physician, physician assistant, respiratory therapist, paramedic, or other suitable person compressing a bag valve mask. Mechanical ventilation is termed "invasive" if it involves any instrument penetrating through the mouth (such as an endotracheal tube) or the skin (such as a tracheostomy tube).[9] There are two main modes of mechanical ventilation within the two divisions: positive pressure ventilation, where air (or another gas mix) is pushed into the trachea, and negative pressure ventilation, where air is, in essence, sucked into the lungs.[10]

Tracheal intubation is often used for short-term mechanical ventilation. It's when a tube is inserted through the nose (nasotracheal intubation) or mouth (orotracheal intubation) and advanced into the trachea. In most cases tubes with inflatable cuffs are used for protection against leakage and aspiration. Intubation with a cuffed tube is thought to provide the best protection against aspiration. Downside of tracheal tubes is the pain and coughing that follows. Therefore, unless a patient is unconscious or anesthetized, sedative drugs are usually given to provide tolerance of the tube. Other disadvantages of tracheal intubation include damage to the mucosal lining of the nasopharynx or oropharynx and subglottic stenosis.

In an emergency a cricothyrotomy can be used by health care professionals, where an airway is inserted through a surgical opening in the cricothyroid membrane. This is similar to a tracheostomy but a cricothyrotomy is reserved for emergency access. This is usually only used when there is a complete blockage of the pharynx or there is massive maxillofacial injury, preventing other adjuncts being used.[11]

Neurostimulation

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Main article: Diaphragm pacing

A rhythmic pacing of the diaphragm is caused with the help of electrical impulses.[12][13] Diaphragm pacing is a technique used by persons with spinal cord injuries who are on a mechanical ventilator to aid with breathing, speaking, and overall quality of life. It may be possible to reduce reliance on a mechanical ventilator with diaphragm pacing.[14] Historically, this has been accomplished through the electrical stimulation of a phrenic nerve by an implanted receiver/electrode,[15] though today an alternative option of attaching percutaneous wires to the diaphragm exists.[16]

History

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The Greek physician Galen may have been the first to describe artificial ventilation: "If you take a dead animal and blow air through its larynx through a reed, you will fill its bronchi and watch its lungs attain the greatest distention."[17] Vesalius too describes ventilation by inserting a reed or cane into the trachea of animals.[18]

It wasn't until 1773, when an English physician William Hawes (1736–1808) began publicizing the power of artificial ventilation to resuscitate people who superficially appeared to have drowned. For a year he paid a reward out of his own pocket to any one bringing him a body rescued from the water within a reasonable time of immersion. Thomas Cogan who was another English physician had become interested in the same subject during a stay at Amsterdam.

In the summer of 1774, Hawes and Cogan each brought fifteen friends to a meeting at the Chapter Coffee-house in St Paul's Churchyard, where they founded the Royal Humane Society. Some methods and equipment were similar to methods used today, such as wooden pipes used in the victims nostrils to blow air into the lungs. Or the use of bellows with a flexible tube for blowing tobacco smoke through the anus to revive vestigial life in the victim's intestines, which was discontinued with the eventual further understanding of respiration.[19]

The work of English physician and physiologist Marshall Hall in 1856 suggested against the use of any type of bellows/positive pressure ventilation. These views that were held for several decades. The introduction of a common method of external manual manipulation in 1858, was the "Silvester Method" invented by Henry Robert Silvester. A method in which a patient is laid on their back and their arms are raised above their head to aid inhalation and then pressed against their chest to aid exhalation. In 1903, another manual technique, the "prone pressure" method, was introduced by Sir Edward Sharpey Schafer.[20] It involved placing the patient on his stomach and applying pressure to the lower part of the ribs. It was the standard method of artificial respiration taught in Red Cross and similar first aid manuals for decades,[21] until mouth-to-mouth resuscitation became the preferred technique in mid-century.[22]

The shortcomings of manual manipulation led doctors in the 1880s to come up with improved methods of mechanical ventilation, which included Dr. George Edward Fell's "Fell method" or "Fell Motor."[23] It consisted of a bellows and a breathing valve to pass air through a tracheotomy. He collaboratied with Dr. Joseph O'Dwyer to invent the Fell-O'Dwyer apparatus, which is a bellows instrument for the insertion and extraction of a tube down the patients trachea.[24][25] Such methods were still looked upon as harmful and were not adopted for many years.

In 2020, the supply of mechanical ventilation became a central question for public health officials due to 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic related shortages.

See also

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References

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