Reading Time: 5 minutes Just like intubation, making the decision to extubate is not always an easy one; but with the right tools and practice, it can become an easier process.
Ventilation
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Reading Time: < 1 minute You can monitor dead space on your intubated patients quickly and easily. Learn the why and how in less than 3 minutes!
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Waveform interpretation is a skill similar to EKG analysis and requires experience and practice. Learn about some advanced ventilation waveform interpretation in this post!
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The equation of motion is a mathematical description of the forces that drive ventilation, and the way these forces are spent in doing so. For the uninitiated reader, this may sound a bit esoteric with little clinical relevance, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Waveform end-tidal CO2 (EtCO2) monitoring is an essential tool we must be using in our departments. Check out this short, but super high-yield video!
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Ventilations during CPR is a contentious topic with little literature to support one way over another, with a few exceptions. Take a look at Jeff Pepin’s overview of the best practices in ventilation.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The Pre-brief A young adult male is transferred to your facility due to reported ARDS and severe hypoxemia related to…
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Reading Time: 6 minutes The Pre-brief In a ventilated patient with an acute COPD or asthma exacerbation, if your I:E ratio is greater than…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Ruth Lamm makes mechanical ventilation easy to understand! Check out her explanation of control modes of ventilation in part 2 of this post.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Ruth Lamm makes mechanical ventilation easy to understand! Check out her explanation of control modes of ventilation in part 1 of this post.