Exam #2: Mechanical Ventilation Flashcards
What is mechanical ventilation?
Process by which FIO2 (≥ 21% room air) is moved into and out of lungs by a mechanical ventilator (doesn’t help with expiration)
Mechanical Ventilation: Not curative
- Means of supporting patients until they recover ability to breathe
- Bridge to long-term mechanical ventilation
Mechanical Ventilation: Indications
- Apnea or impending inability to breathe or protect the airway
- Acute respiratory failure
- Severe hypoxia
- Respiratory muscle fatigue
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Types of Mechanical Ventilation
- Negative Pressure Ventilation
2. Positive Pressure Ventilation
Negative Pressure Ventilation
- Involves the use of chambers that encases the chest or body
- Intermittent negative pressure pulls chest outward → air rushes in → passive expiration
- Similar to normal ventilation
- It is noninvasive ventilation that does not require an artificial airway
Positive Pressure Ventilation
- Used primarily in acutely ill patients
- Delivers air into lungs under positive pressure during inspiration → intrathoracic pressure ↑ during lung inflation (opposite of normal)
- Expiration occurs passively
Mechanical Ventilation: Modes of PPV
- Volume Ventilation
2. Pressure Ventilation
Modes of PPV: Volume Ventilation
- Predetermined tidal volume (VT) delivered with each inspiration
- Amount of pressure needed to deliver each breath varies
- Tidal volume same with each breath P
Modes of PPV: Pressure Ventilation
- Predetermined peak inspiratory pressure
- VT varies
- Careful attention needed to prevent hyper/hypoventilation
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What do mechanical ventilation settings do?
-Regulate rate, VT, oxygen concentration and other characteristics of ventilation
Tidal Volume is based on
- How much the person weighs
- Usual is 50-600
Mechanical Ventilator Settings: What does tidal volume measure and what is the usual volume?
- Volume of gas delivered to patient during each ventilator breath
- Usual volume: 6–10 mL/kg
What are mechanical ventilator settings based on?
Patient status:
- ABGs
- ideal body weight
- current physiologic state
- LOC
- Respiratory muscle strength
Mechanical Ventilator Settings are adjusted until
Oxygenation and ventilation targets are reached
Mechanical Ventilation: Settings include
- Respiratory rate
- Tidal volume (VT)
- Fraction of inspired oxygen (FIO2)
- Positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP)
- Pressure support
- I:E ratio
- Inspiratory flow rate and time
-Sensitivity - High-pressure limit
Mechanical Ventilator Settings: Respiratory Rate
- Number of breaths the ventilator delivers per minute
- Usual setting: 6–20 breaths/min
Mechanical Ventilator Settings: What is Oxygen Concentration (FIO2) and what is the usual range?
- Fraction of inspired oxygen (FIO2) delivered to patient.
- May be set between 21% (essentially room air) and 100%.
- Usually adjusted to maintain PaO2 level >60 mm Hg or SpO2 level >90%
Mechanical Ventilation Settings: Positive End-Expiratory Pressure (PEEP) what does it measure and what is the usual setting?
- Positive pressure applied at the end of expiration of ventilator breaths.
- Usual setting: 5 cm H2O
Mechanical Ventilation Settings: What is pressure support and what is the usual setting?
- Positive pressure used to augment patient’s inspiratory pressure.
- Usual setting: 6–18 cm H2O
Mechanical Ventilator Settings: What is I:E ratio and what is the usual setting?
- Duration of inspiration (I) to duration of expiration (E).
- Usual setting: 1:2 to 1:1.5 unless IRV is desired
Mechanical Ventilation Settings: What is inspiratory flow rate and time and what is the usual setting?
- Speed with which the VT is delivered.
- Usual setting: 40–80 L/min and time is 0.8–1.2 sec
Mechanical Ventilation Setting: What is sensitivity and what is the usual setting?
- Determines the amount of effort the patient must generate to initiate a ventilator breath.
- It may be set for pressure triggering or flow triggering.
- Usual setting: For a pressure trigger is 0.5–1.5 cm H2O below baseline pressure and for a flow trigger is 1–3 L/min below baseline flow
*Important in assist control; want sensitivity to be high
Mechanical Ventilation Settings: What is high-pressure limit and what is the usual setting?
- Regulates the maximal pressure the ventilator can generate to deliver the VT. When the pressure limit is reached, the ventilator terminates the breath and spills the undelivered volume into the atmosphere.
- Usual setting:10–20 cm H2O above peak inspiratory pressure
Mechanical Ventilation
Modes are based on
Based on how much work of breathing (WOB) patient should or can perform
Mechanical Ventilation Modes are determined by what factors?
- Ventilatory status of patient
- Respiratory drive
- ABGs
Mechanical Modes of Ventilation: Types of Support
- Controlled ventilatory support:
Ventilator does all the WOB - Assisted ventilatory support:
Ventilator and patient share WOB
Mechanical Ventilation: Assist-Control Ventilation (ACV)
- Delivers preset VT at preset frequency
- When patient initiates a spontaneous breath, preset VT is delivered
- Can breathe faster but not slower
- Allows some control over ventilation
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Assist-control ventilation: There is a potential for
- Potential for hyperventilation
- Continuous monitoring required
Mechanical Ventilation: Synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation
- Delivers preset VT at preset frequency in synchrony with patient’s spontaneous breathing
- Between ventilator-delivered breaths, patient is able to breathe spontaneously
- Thus, the patient receives preset FIO2 but self-regulates rate and volume of spontaneous breaths
What are potential benefits of SIMV?
- Improved patient-ventilator synchrony
- Lower mean airway pressure
- Prevention of muscle atrophy as the patient takes on more of the WOB
What are disadvantages of SIMV?
- If spontaneous breathing decreases when the preset rate is low, ventilation might not be adequately supported.
- Only patients with regular, spontaneous breathing should use low-rate SIMV.
Mechanical Ventilation: Pressure Modes include
- Pressure support ventilation
- Pressure-control ventilation
- Pressure-controlled/inverse ratio ventilation
- Airway pressure release ventilation
Pressure Support Ventilation
- Positive pressure applied to airway only during inspiration in conjunction with spontaneous respirations
- Machine senses spontaneous effort and supplies rapid flow of gas at initiation of breath
- Patient determines inspiratory length, VT, and respiratory rate
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What is PSV used for?
Continuous ventilation and weaning
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What are advantages of Pressure Support Ventilation?
↑ Patient comfort
↓ WOB
↓ Oxygen consumption
↑ Endurance conditioning
Pressure-Control Ventilation (PCV)
- Provides pressure-limited breath at a set rate
- May permit spontaneous breathing
- VT is not set; determined by the set pressure limit set
Pressure-Controlled/Inverse Ratio Ventilation
- Combines pressure-limited ventilation with an inverse ratio of inspiration (I) to expiration (E)
- Normal I/E is 1:2 or 1:3
- With IRV, I/E ratio begins at 1:1 and may progress to 4:1
- Progressively expands collapsed alveoli and has a PEEP-like effect
With Pressure-controlled/Inverse Ratio Ventilation, the patient needs what?
Sedation with or without paralysis