Article Document Information Content Entity Continuant Continuant Entity Entity Review Generically Dependent Continuant 2025-06-24T10:57:08 RDF description of Mechanical ventilation: past lessons and the near future [review] - http://repository.healthpartners.com/individual/document-rn18150 2022-02-21T22:48:57.408-06:00 17 Prevention <p>The ability to compensate for life-threatening failure of respiratory function is perhaps the signature technology of intensive care medicine. Unchanging needs for providing effective life-support with minimized risk and optimized comfort have been, are now, and will be the principal objectives of providing mechanical ventilation. Important lessons acquired over nearly half-a-century of ICU care have brought us closer to meeting them, as technological advances in instrumentation now effectively put this hard-won knowledge into action. Rising demand in the face of economic constraints is likely to drive future innovations focused on reducing the need for user input, automating multi-element protocols, and carefully monitoring the patient for progress and complications.<p> public review Mechanical ventilation: past lessons and the near future [review] Suppl 1 10.1186/cc11499 Critical Care (London, England) document-rn18150 19152 Critical Care Lung Diseases 12286 Respiration, Artificial