surfactant use in older babies

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PLV (partial liquid ventilation) - essentially a pt's FRC was filled with perfluorocarbon, an inert chemical with a very high oxygen diffusivity and low surface tension. It's my understanding that the liquid had to be replaced periodically to reoxygenate. It also showed great promise for its ability to recriut atelectasized areas of the lung at very low pressures. I've never seen it, however I did write a paper on PLV in respiratory school. There have been some more recent studies of PLV in ARDS Pt's, however the mortality rate was higher than those ARDS Pt's studied in the initial ARDSnet studies with conventional ventilatory modes. I just googled PLV and came up with quite a bit.
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To the OP: Did you have a chance to use NO on your Pt?

Yea...NO as in Nitrtic Oxide. I see that in your earlier post now........Sounds like nothing worked on this poor little one