Volume cycled versus pressure controlled ventilation

Volume cycled

Advantages

Guaranteed tidal volume and VE

Clinician familiarity

Disadvantages

Airway pressures not controlled

Worse patient tolerance

Pressure controlled

Advantages

Airway pressures controlled

Better patient tolerance

Disadvantages

Less clinician familiarity

VT and VE not guaranteed

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