Reading Time: 4 minutes The Pre-brief Understanding ventilator loops is essential and beneficial in evaluating your patient’s respiratory mechanics and interactions with the ventilator.…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Short acting versus long acting. Beta Agonists versus Muscarinic Antagonist. Here is a rundown of Respiratory Medications.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Unplanned extubation is a life threatening event and can lead to a variety of complications including but not limited to: vocal cord paralysis, aspiration, hypoxemia, airway edema, hemodynamic instability, and cardiac arrest.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you know how much air to put in the cuff? Are you wondering why this question is important?
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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.