What mode of mechanical ventilation is designed to increase the mean airway pressure to allow recruitment of alveoli while allowing the patient to spontaneously breathe?

a. Inverse ratio ventilation
b. High-frequency ventilation
c. Intermittent mandatory ventilation
d. Airway pressure-release ventilation


ANS: D
The clinical aim of APRV is to increase the mean airway pressure to allow recruitment of alveoli while allowing the patient to spontaneously breathe.

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