Pressure-limited (controlled) ventilation is commonly employed to provide mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit when lung compliance is poor or when airway resistance is irreversibly high. Modification of the inspiratory-expiratory ratio to include inspiratory-expiratory ratio reversal and permissive hypercapnia can also be used when lung disease or injury is severe. Because other donor organs often can be saved for transplantation even when the lungs have been badly damaged, the organ procurement coordinator should adopt pressure-limited ventilation as well as inspiratory-expiratory ratio reversal and permissive hypercapnia as potentially helpful methods while providing mechanical ventilation to selected donors.
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