Abstract
The results of the ventilatory management of babies, obtained in the first 3 years of a neonatal surgical intensive care unit, are assessed. Overall mortality figures and detailed examination of the cause of death in individual diagnostic groups support a selective approach to intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV) based mainly on clinical criteria. The adoption of a policy of prophylactic IPPV after operation would achieve virtually no improvement in mortality.
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