Slow-rate, high-pressure ventilation: a method of management of difficult transplant recipients during sequential double lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis.

Single and double lung ventilation can be extremely difficult in patients with cystic fibrosis who require sequential double lung transplantation. This article reports the successful use of slow-rate, high-pressure ventilation in the management of two ventilator-dependent patients who would otherwise have needed to be supported by cardiopulmonary bypass.