A number of ventilatory modalities have been
proposed to gradually get newborn infants off the
mechanical ventilator, but their respective effects
on the outcome of weaning from respiratory
support remain unclear.
Several randomised trials have demonstrated
that ventilation techniques which support every
spontaneous breath are the most efficacious
weaning modes. In a recent systematic review,
Greenough et al. reported that synchronized
ventilation was associated with a shorter duration
of ventilation when compared to conventional
ventilation