[The adaptation of the Bennett PR2 to intermittent mandatory ventilation (author's transl)].

This adaptation presents the following advantages over and above those already acknowledged for continuous IPP ventilation: conservation of respiratory muscle functions, autoregulation of ventilatory frequence, reduction of mean endothoracic pressure, thus dispensing with the necessity for negative-end-expiratory pressure. In addition: easy, effortless assembly, abolishes the defects of the Bennett PR2, gives the machine a good volumetric performance.