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Clinical Overview

Mechanical Ventilation

Ventilator Victims

Introduction to Mechanical Ventilation

*Please take the quiz below the video to receive credit.

Objectives

  1. Provide an overview of measured and unmeasured lung volumes along with factors that affect respiratory mechanics.
  2. Describe how to determine airway resistance and lung compliance.
  3. Understand the basic modes and breath types commonly used in mechanical ventilation.

Reading

Lecture

Quiz

Name(Required)
1. Name the 2 most important lung volume/capacity factors that support successful liberation from the mechanical ventilator.(Required)
2. Ventilation without perfusion best describes:(Required)
3. Compliance is determined by:(Required)
4. Ideal body weight is used to select the appropriate tidal volume (Vt) for the mechanically ventilated patient. This is calculated using the patient’s:(Required)
5. All of the following are commonly used modes of mechanical ventilation except:(Required)
6. Pressure control breath types exhibit all of the following characteristics except:(Required)
7. Measuring Static Airway Resistance and Compliance:(Required)
8. What mode of mechanical ventilation delivers a set number of mandatory breaths of a set breath type over time allowing spontaneous breaths to be assisted with a full mandatory breath of the same breath type making each breath the same whether it was triggered by time or by the spontaneous patient?(Required)
9. Choose the incorrect statement about pressure support (PS).(Required)
10. In a patient requiring mechanical ventilation, how soon does it take for significant atrophy of the diaphragm to occur?(Required)

Ventilator Victims

*Please take the quiz below the video to receive credit.

Objectives

  1. Name basic goals of mechanical ventilation.
  2. Learn basic buttons/functions on every ventilator.
  3. Initiate ventilator settings and know complications of common disease states.
  4. Learn algorithms of how to deal with crisis in the ventilated patient.
  5. Describe proper use and complications of non-invasive ventilation.
  6. Learn and be able to utilize the BEST protocol.

Articles

Lecture

Quiz

Name(Required)
1. What is a normal minute ventilation?(Required)
2. What is a normal plateau pressure?(Required)
3. What is the goal PaCO2 in the patient who has suffered a traumatic brain injury?(Required)
4. Which of the following is not a cause of a high-pressure alarm on the ventilator?(Required)
5. Which of the following is not a cause of a low-pressure alarm on the ventilator?(Required)
6. As a general statement, which settings on the mechanical ventilator affect oxygenation?(Required)
7. As a general statement, which settings on the mechanical ventilator affect ventilation?(Required)
8. Which of the following patients would not be a candidate for non-invasive mechanical ventilation?(Required)
9. What is the first step the provider should take when assessing a patient whose ventilator is alarming without a known cause?(Required)
10. True or False: When looking at the waveforms on the PB840 ventilator, the red breaths are spontaneous breaths.(Required)