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Pediatr Pulmonol. TRIB1 2013; 48:545�C552. ? 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. ""Hospitalizing clinically stable patients in critical care settings results in unnecessary healthcare costs and thwarts timely patient throughput. Some pediatric hospitals care for their stable ventilator-dependent children outside of pediatric intensive care units (PICUs). To date, no analysis of the costs of these pediatric ventilator units compared to PICUs has been performed. We conducted a retrospective comparison of PICU and ventilator ward costs of hospitalizations for 103 admissions in which ventilator-dependent children served as their own matched controls between 2004 and 2007. For included admissions, patients were hospitalized in both units during the same admission and spent more than 1 day in their initial unit. Comparisons of costs were made using the last full PICU day and first full ward day. For the study period, the mean PICU cost of hospitalization per day was $3,565 (standard deviation [SD]?��?716.50). The mean ward cost was $2,052 (SD?��?617). The mean PICU cost was significantly larger than the mean ward cost (paired t-test, P?see more After 30?min of mechanical ventilation, surfactant was administered to the left lung of the treatment group. Right lung mechanical ventilation continued for 3?hr, after which the left lung was unblocked. Bilateral mechanical ventilation was continued for 30?min thereafter. Physiological parameters and biomarkers of inflammation in plasma, lung tissue homogenates, and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) were measured. Oxygenation improved in the surfactant group, reaching statistical significance at Ibrutinib 3?hr of OLV and again after 30?min of bilateral mechanical ventilation following the OLV. Plasma levels of interleukin (IL)-1 ��, IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-�� showed a trend for reduction. The lung homogenates from the ventilated lungs had significantly lower levels of IL-1 �� (P?