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Initial Ventilator Settings Flashcards

1
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What are the types of ventilators and modes?

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  • Intubated vs mask
  • ICU or home setting
  • Brief or long term
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What are the goals of ventilators and modes?

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  • Airway management
  • Ventilation
  • Oxygenation disturbance
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What three things to consider for ventilation?

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  • Invasive vs non-invasive
  • Volume vs pressure
  • Full vs partial support
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What three ways is non-invasive ventilation accomplished?

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  • NPV
  • CPAP
  • NPPV
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What two ways may require the use of a face/nasal mask?

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CPAP and NPPV

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What are the general findings of negative pressure ventilators?

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  • NO AIRWAY!
  • patient can talk, eat and drink
  • avoid complications of PPV
  • most often used in home - long term
  • negative pressure across chest wall
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7
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In negative pressure ventilators, compliance and resistance must be ___

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Stable

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8
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What kind of ventilation is good for patients who need night ventilation?

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Negative pressure

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9
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What is negative pressure ventilation good for?

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  • Neuromuscular
  • Kyphoscoliosis
  • Chest wall deformity
  • Spinal cord injuries
  • Central control
  • COPD at night
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What must patients have for negative pressure ventilation?

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  • Airway protection
  • Ability to swallow
  • Normal compliance and resistance
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What are the disadvantages of NPV?

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  • Patient access difficult
  • May cause tank shock
  • Not much control
  • No spontaneous breathing
  • Hot and noisy
  • Not good for acute exacerbation of COPD
  • No OSA - may exaggerate airway closure
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How do you set a negative pressure ventilator?

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  • Set 5-10 below patient’s rate
  • Increase negative pressure until patient can’t talk
  • Max pressure of 35 can be achieved
  • Use spirometer to measure volume
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What things should you do when adjusting negative pressure ventilators?

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  • Adjust volume by increasing pressure or itime
  • Ask patient how he feels
  • Draw ABG to assess
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14
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What are the hazards of an iron lung?

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  • Abdominal pooling
  • Large and cumbersome
  • Nursing care difficult -IV
  • Still used today
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15
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What is the chest curiass?

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  • Applies negative pressure to thorax
  • Eliminates abdominal pooling
  • Difficult to maintain a seal
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16
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What is a body wrap?

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  • Also called a pneumowrap, raincoat or poncho
  • Made of nylon
  • Not as efficient but popular because easy to use
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What are the indications for NPPV?

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  • Patients with acute-on-chronic RF who require short term ventilation
  • Terminally ill patients
  • Patients who tolerate nasal/ask for long term
  • Patients with ARF
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What are the contraindications for NPPV?

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  • DNR orders
  • Inability to clear secretions
  • Inability to fit a mask
  • Resp arrest - need for intubation
  • Severe acidosis
  • Shock Bp <90 mmHg
  • Uncontrolled arrhythmias
  • Uncooperative patient
  • Upper airway obstruction/trauma
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What is CPAP?

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Keeps alveoli open and increases a PFT factor

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When is CPAP used?

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  • Oxygenation
  • Obstructive sleep apnea
  • COPD with increase in WOB (be careful with COPD!)
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When is NPPV for chronic RF used?

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  • Chest wall deformities
  • Neuromuscular disorders
  • Central alveolar hypoventilation
  • COPD
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Bronchiectasis
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When is NPPV for acute RF used?

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  • COPD
  • ARDS
  • Pneumonia
  • Asthma
  • CF
  • AIDS
  • Heart failure
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What are the advantages of NPPV?

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  • Avoids airway complication
  • Flexibility in initiating and removing support
  • Preserves airway defense
  • Reduces need invasive monitoring
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What are the disadvantages of NPPV?

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  • Cannot be used if aspiration risk
  • Cannot be used for excessive secretions
  • Cannot be used loss of protective airway reflexes
  • Cannot be used in upper airway obstruction
  • May not work ARF with oxygen deficit
  • Causes gastric distension, skin press sores, facial pain, dry nose, eye irritation, poor sleep and discomfort
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25
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What are the overall goals of ventilation?

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  • Support the minute ventilation in order to meet the oxygen need
  • Improve gas exchange
  • Relieve respiratory distress
  • Heal the lung
  • Clear secretions
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26
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What is full ventilatory support (FVS)?

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All work comes from the machine. High rates and minute volume

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What is partial ventilatory support (PVS)?

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Lowered mechanical work in hope that the patient will increase their breathing to compensate. Rates are less than 6/min and patient participates. Used in weaning

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28
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Which mode is better: pressure or volume?

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No method has proved to be better than the another, it is usually an operator’s preference

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29
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Is pressure or volume control better for closed head injuries?

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Volume because you get a guaranteed minute ventilation

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30
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What is controlled under volume control mode?

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  • Control volume
  • Familiar
  • Set VT, F and flow/itime
  • Real risk of overdistension
  • Good for iatrogenic hyperventilation in CHI
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What is controlled under pressure control mode?

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  • Volume varies
  • Set pressure, F and itime
  • Set max pressure
  • Reduce risk of overdistension
  • Desc flow pattern improves distention of vent
  • MAP rises with PV
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32
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What are the benefits of volume ventilation?

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  • Set volume, rate and flow (or itime)
  • Guarantees a specific volume or MV
  • Pressure varies with changes in compliance and resistance
  • MV will be more controlled
33
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What are the factors that affect pressure during volume ventilation?

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  • Patient’s lung characteristics
  • Inspiratory flow patterns
  • Volume setting
34
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What can affect the patient’s lung characteristics?

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Lower compliance or higher resistance results in higher peak and plateau pressures

35
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What can affect the inspiratory flow patterns?

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  • Peak pressure higher with constant flow and lower with decreased flow
  • High inspiratory flows create higher peak pressure
36
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What is the ultimate goal of volume ventilation?

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Minute ventilation that matches the patient’s metabolic needs

37
Q

How would you calculate TCT?

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  • 60/F

- TI +TE

38
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How would you calculate frequency?

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MV / VT

39
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How would you calculate itime?

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(VT in L / flow) x 100

40
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What is the Debois BSA equation for finding MV for men?

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MV = 4 x BSA

41
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What is the Debois BSA equation for finding MV for women?

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MV = 3.5 x BSA

42
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Why isn’t Debois BSA chart the most reliable?

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It assumes normal conditions and must be changed in the face of:

  • hypo/hyperthermia
  • hypermetabolism
  • metabolic acidosis
  • burns
  • lung diseases with increase VD
43
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How do you determine VT?

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  • 8-10mL/kg IBW

- Rate of 12-18bpm

44
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What should you keep the plateau pressure at to prevent alveolar distension?

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< 30 cmH20

45
Q

Use ___ VT with high peep levels

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Lower

46
Q

How do you calculate the volume lost in tubing?

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Factor x PP

47
Q

What pressure is the pressure gradient?

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Driving pressure

48
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How do you calculate IBW in men?

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[106 + 6(H-60)] / 2.2

49
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How do you calculate IBW in women?

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[105 + 5(H-60)] / 2.2

50
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What rates and VT would you select in a patient with normal lungs?

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  • Large VT (12)
  • Low F (8-12)
  • Flow to meet demand (40-100)
51
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What rates and VT would you select in a patient with COPD lungs?

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  • High compliance and RAW
  • Moderate VT (8-12)
  • Low F (6-10)
  • High flow to meet demand (40-100)
52
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What rates and VT would you select in a patient with restrictive lungs?

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  • Smaller VT (<8-10)
  • High F (12-20)
  • Slower flow
53
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Higher flow ___ itime and ___ PAP and causes poor gas distribution

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Decresases; increases

54
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Slower flow ___ i time and ___ PAP and improves gas distribution

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Increase; decreases

55
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How would you determine what flow and flow pattern to use?

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  • Set flow to meet patient demand
  • ARDS may need 4 time constants
  • COPD may need 3 time constants
56
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True/False: flow too fast may worsen distribution in the lung and must be closely monitored

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True

57
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True/False: turbulent gas does not get to an alveolus

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True

58
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Describe the sine flow pattern

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Better distention than constant. Paw and peak equal to constant. Peak higher when Raw is high

59
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Describe the descending flow pattern

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Occurs naturally in pressure ventilation. Peak pressure is lower than constant. Paw is higher. Descending improves distention of ventilation, decreases VD and improves oxygenation by increasing mean and plateau pressures

60
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What are concerns associated with high peak and mean?

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  • Paw is more important than increased PIP
  • Increased peak are not always associated lung injury
  • When Raw is high peak pressure would be high but much of pressure is not dissipated in overcoming Raw and never reached the alveolar level
61
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Changing the flow pattern may change what?

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i time

62
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In time-cycled hamiltons, servos and dragers, changing the flow pattern may change what?

A

Peak flow

63
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In a VT/Flow cycled PB, changing the flow pattern changes what?

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i time and I:E ratio

64
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In waveforms, MAP ___ with descending flow and ___ with ascending flow

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Increases; decreases

65
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In waveforms, PIP ___ with descending flow and ___ with ascending flow

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Decreases; increases

66
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What does descending flow improve?

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  • Gas distribution

- Arterial oxygenation

67
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What does it mean if PaO2 begins to decrease and PaCO2 rises while VE increases?

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  • Auto-peep
  • poor V/Q non-homeogenous lung
  • changes in venous return
  • may need to change mode to spontaneous
68
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When is an inflation hold used?

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  • Therapeutically

- Diagnostically

69
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How is an inflation hold used therapeutically?

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  • Improves distribution of air exchange
  • Reduces VD/VT
  • Inverse I:E
70
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How is an inflation hold used diagnostically?

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Measures static pressure (compliance)

71
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What must you do when setting a pressure level?

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  • Pressure grad bet PEEP (auto-peep) and PIP
  • If switching measure plat and set pressure at plat
  • Or set at 10 and increase
72
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Why must you set a pressure limit when you set the pressure?

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Safety alarm; in case the person coughs, etc

73
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What are the goals of PSV?

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  • Increase VT
  • Decrease RR
  • Decrease WOB associated with art airway
74
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PSV helps overcome __ to start a breath

A

Resistance

75
Q

What is an indicator of adequate PSV?

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Sternocleidomastoid muscle

76
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How much pressure should you set with PSV?

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  • With lung Dx - usually 8-14 to overcome WOB

- Without lung Dx - about 5

77
Q

What are set in PCV?

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  • Rate
  • i time
  • I:E ratio
  • Pressure reviewed before
78
Q

How should you set the sensitivity trigger?

A

Select lowest level to cycle without auto cycling

79
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What are the 4 top reasons a machine will not cycle?

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  • Sensitivity set too low
  • Auto-PEEP
  • High bias flow
  • Abdominal paradox

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