TY - JOUR T1 - The role of negative pressure ventilation JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 94 LP - 94 DO - 10.1136/adc.79.1.94b VL - 79 IS - 1 AU - MARTIN SAMUELS AU - DAVID SOUTHALL Y1 - 1998/07/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/79/1/94.3.abstract N2 - Editor,—Thomson’s recent review of negative pressure ventilation1 included results of our randomised controlled trial of 244 infants with neonatal respiratory failure.2 She commented that there was “a small overall benefit of CNEP [continuous negative extrathoracic pressure] but with non-significant increases in mortality, pneumothorax rate, and cranial ultrasound abnormalities in the CNEP group”. An important result not mentioned in her review … ER -