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Asthma
1. The document discusses approaches for ventilating patients with asthma, focusing on the benefits of decelerating flow over constant flow. 2. Data from studies on pediatric and adult asthma patients show that pressure control ventilation with decelerating flow results in better oxygenation, lower carbon dioxide levels, and shorter time to clinical improvement compared to volume control ventilation with constant flow. 3. The preferred ventilation approach for asthma is to use pressure control modes with decelerating flow, limit lung injury by avoiding dynamic hyperinflation, minimize plateau pressures, and allow some hypercapnia to prevent barotrauma.
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