Ventilation

Reading Time: 2 minutes Anatomical dead space specifically refers to the volume of air located in the respiratory tract that are responsible for conducting air to the alveoli and respiratory bronchioles but do not take part in the process of gas exchange.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Read this weekly review for some spaced repetition of the past week’s content.

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

Reading Time: 6 minutes Just because you have an I:E ratio of 1:5 does not mean that your patient will not stack breaths. It is all about how much time they have to exhale!

Reading Time: 3 minutes ARDS management can seem complicated, but let’s start by breaking down the basic steps in setting up the ventilator.

Reading Time: 3 minutes For decades EMS clinicians have been trained to expedite transport to the hospital for the sickest patients. Rapid movement to transport often occurs at the expense of aggressive medical intervention and current evidence suggests that for certain patients this practice may be deleterious.

Reading Time: 2 minutes APRV can seem daunting at first look, but let’s demystify this mode of ventilation in this post.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Dr. Thind discusses how to assess the intensity of inspiratory effort on an intubated patient.

Reading Time: 9 minutes It has long been known that excessive degrees of PPV may result in lung injury. This has been termed ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI). More recently, the idea of patient self-inflicted lung injury (P-SILI) has come to light.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Airway foreign bodies can be catastrophic. Early diagnosis and appropriate management are critical to patient survival!