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.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Waveform interpretation made easy by an expert Respiratory Therapist
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Every manager of the ventilator must understand waveforms. Pressure, Flow, Volume, and time can be plotted to give you a picture of what is happening in the lungs and the ventilator.