Ventilator

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Pre-brief This is the first lecture of the series on respiratory mechanics presented to the Critical Care Medicine fellows…

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Pre-brief A 38-year-old male presented two-days ago with severe ARDS and was intubated on arrival. He is currently paralyzed…

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

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

Reading Time: 5 minutes During acute hypoxemia and/or increased ventilatory pressures, why is it that we opt to switch to a more primitive form of ventilatory assist?

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 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 The term ‘spontaneous mode’ is generally used for a mode that only allows spontaneous breath. . .