Ventilation

Reading Time: 3 minutes Understanding the differences in peak and plateau airway pressures is essential for diagnosing changes in the patient/ventilator system.

Reading Time: 5 minutes It is inherently true that extremely high pressures delivered by the ventilator may lead to lung injury. It is natural to have some inherent dread about high Peak Inspiratory Pressure (PIP), but there is more to it than just PIP.

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.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Negative Pressure Ventilation hit it’s peak with the Iron Lung. Could it make a resurgence?

Reading Time: 4 minutes Highlights on how to handle the right heart. Top 10 pearls from the discussion on Acute Cor Pulmonale.

Reading Time: 3 minutes What does a panting dog have to do with neonatal ventilation? Christina breaks down High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation.

Reading Time: 7 minutes Dr. Aman Thind breaks down the components and practical implications of dead space ventilation.

Reading Time: 3 minutes This week on the Beyond Albuterol series, we are talking about Chest Physiotherapy, comparing chest percussion and high-frequency chest wall oscillation (AKA vest therapy).

Reading Time: 3 minutes Got low ETCO2 after an intubation during cardiac arrest? Troubleshoot it with these steps.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Check out these tips for the best BVM use!