mechanical ventilation

Reading Time: 3 minutes The concepts of stress and strain are borrowed from material science and warrant their own discussion.

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Blog post on TCAV-APRV More information on Dr. Rola’s Course Register for the course

Reading Time: < 1 minute A systematic framework for understanding ventilator waveforms.

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.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Create a foundation in understanding mechanical ventilation and how to respond to common alarms.

Reading Time: 3 minutes While APRV sounds great in theory, it does come with its limitations that should be considered prior to initiating it on any patient.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Read this weekly review for some spaced repetition of the past week’s content.

Reading Time: 2 minutes There are at least three distinct causes of multiple triggering! Check them out in this infographic.

Reading Time: 3 minutes VDR, Volumetric Diffusive Respiration, is a pneumatically driven pressure-limited and time-cycled ventilator that provides high-frequency percussive ventilation (HFPV)

Reading Time: 4 minutes We learned about some basics of extubation in a previous post; here are some more advanced concepts for extubation.