Length of Stay for Illness-Severity Matched Non-Survivors of NICU Care Treated with High-Frequency Oscillation Vs Conventional Ventilation: He Who Picks a Rose Must Be Careful of the Thorns

Abstract 201 Clinical Bioethics Poster Symposium, Tuesday, 5/4

High-Frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) has been touted as a significant improvement over conventional mechanical ventilation (CV) in the care of newborn infants with respiratory failure. We wondered whether the benefits of HFOV, if any, might be associated with burdens as well. Specifically, we wondered whether non-surviving infants treated with HFOV spent longer in the NICU before their death compared to doomed infants treated with CV.

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