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When and how should you ventilate a child?

07 January 2021

Nursing Children and Young People

Evidence and practice

Ventilators play an essential role in supporting the respiratory system and breathing at several stages in a child’s life. The purpose of a ventilator is to ensure a...

How can CPAP support a child’s breathing?

05 May 2022

Nursing Children and Young People

Evidence and practice

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is used to help keep a child’s airway open. It is used in babies with breathing difficulties, for example where there are...

What is ECMO and how can it save the sickest of children?

04 November 2021

Nursing Children and Young People

evidence and practice

Extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a technology capable of providing short-term mechanical support to the heart and/or lungs (Millar et al 2016).

07 March 2024 / Vol 36 issue 2

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