Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) enables assessment of regional lung ventilation at the bedside. EIT has been safely used in newborn infants to image intrathoracic lung volume patterns as early as from the first minute of life. This prospective single-centre observational study is to identify optimal PEEP in infants on respiratory support by measurements of EIT, FOT and SOPI.
22+0 to 41+6 weeks' gestational age
Requiring mechanical ventilation
Written informed parental consent
Major congenital malformations including lung and cardiac malformations
Infants on high frequency oscillatory ventilation
Lack of written informed parental consent