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Show _TheSalt Lake Tribune HEALTH & SCIENCE Thursday, May6, 1999 New Approach being applied to the lungs. “We are not simply talking about changingsettings on the ventilator, but implementing complicated, de tailed protocols that govern the deliveryof care for these patients on To Lung Ailment Will Save Lives a consistent and uniform basis,” said Morris, who oversawtheclini- @ Continued from B-1 cal trial at LDS, McKay-Dee and Universityhospitals. Until this study, there has not ters per kilogram ys. larger breaths at 12 milliliters per kilogram were far moreeffective in the treatment of patients and the reduction in mortality rates. But it wasn’t just because of the change in the settings. The researchers were consis- tently adjusting the levels based on a complicated set of rules structured aroundlevels of oxygen in the blood and ventilator pressure been a standardized ventilator treatmentfor ARDSpatients. The protocol was based in part on research done at LDS Hospital foundation for the more recent, randomized trial under the direction of the National Heart, Lung and BloodInstitute of the National Institutes of Health. Dorothy Gail of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, said the newresults mark thefirst Positive clinical trial on ARDS since the condition was defined more than 30 years ago. “The reasonit’s so excitingis this is a very simple change in therapy that can makea difference in the outcome for patients who are so since 1987, when Morris andhis team first established computerized protocols for the use of heartlung machines and for mechanical critically ill with acute respiratory ARDSpatients. cal] community is just really excit- ventilator use in the treatmentof Those protocols then formed the distress,”shesaid. “It’s a very simple adjustment in the ventilator that can be done immediately and it doesn’t cost anything. 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