VILI

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

Reading Time: 5 minutes Pulmonary barotrauma is a complication of mechanical ventilation that can have serious consequences for your patient. Read about how to look for and treat it with this post by Dr. Obiajulu Anozie.

Reading Time: 2 minutes We use best practice and ventilate with LTVV while on mechanical ventilation, but when it comes to manually ventilating with a BVM, that practice goes out the window.

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.