Reading Time: < 1 minute High frequency percussive ventilation can be intimidating to initiate but with these quick guides and go to operational sheets the pneumatics can be conquered.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Waveform interpretation made easy by an expert Respiratory Therapist
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The time has finally come to extubate your patient. The question is, what should you extubate your patient to? Nasal cannula, NIV, HFNC?
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Did you know 20-30% of patients are difficult to wean from the mechanical ventilator?
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Reading Time: 3 minutes How do I know when to start the weaning process and when to extubate?
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Reading Time: 3 minutes It doesn’t look like a trach you have ever seen before. That’s because the patient had laryngeal cancer and required a total laryngectomy.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes We use best practice and ventilate with LTVV while on mechanical ventilation, but when it comes to manually ventilating with a BVM, that practice goes out the window.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes NAVA, Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist, is a proportional ventilatory mode that uses the diaphragm’s vagal nerve stimulation to provide ventilatory assistance in synchrony with the patient’s respiratory efforts.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes What is the purpose of a cuff on a tracheostomy tube? Should it stay inflated or deflated?
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Reading Time: 3 minutes PAV is like power steering. Proportional Assist Ventilation (PAV) is a spontaneous breathing mode created to improve ventilator synchrony by creating more natural breathing.