Use of Negative Pressure Ventilation in Pediatric Critical Care: Experience in 56 PICUs in the Virtual Pediatric Systems Database (2009–2019)

Abstract

Negative pressure ventilation is being used in many PICUs, most commonly for pulmonary infections or cardiac disease, in children with high rates of subsequent intubation and mortality and with few documented adverse events. Use at individual centers is rare but increasing, suggesting need for prospective collaboration to better evaluate the role of negative pressure ventilation in the PICU.