L15-16: Mechanical Ventilation Flashcards
What are the 3 principles of mechanical ventilation?
- Positive pressure ventilation involves delivering mechanically generated ‘breath’ to get O2 in and CO2 out
- Gas pumped in during inspiration (Ti) and patient passively expires during expiration (Te)
- Sum of Ti and Te is respiratory cycle or ‘breath’
_______ involves delivering mechanically generated ‘breath’ to get O2 in and CO2 out
Positive pressure ventilation
Gas pumped in during _____ and patient ______ during______
inspiration (Ti); passively expires; expiration (Te)
What are 4 indications for mechcnical ventilation?
- Respiratory failure ie Type I or II
- In patients who are at risk of respiratory failure due to unsustainable levels of cardiac work or work of breathing
- Major insult to body eg burns, head injury, multi-trauma, tetanus, sepsis – allows oxygen used for breathing to be diverted to other organs
- Airway protection or large secretion load
- Spontaneous ventilation inadequate to maintain gas exchange
- Defined as PaO2 < 60mmHg and PaCO2 > 49mmHg
- Other symptoms taken into account
- Eg ↑ WOB, accessory muscle use, sweating ++ ↑ HR, ↑ RR, ↑ BP, confusion, aggression, secretions
- If critically ill, metabolic cost of breathing increases to 30% from 5% in normal person
- “End of Bedogram”
- Condition must be reversible
- Will never get off mechanical ventilator –> so this needs to be considered carefully
What are 6 effects of mechanical ventilation?
What are the 2 types of mechnical ventilation?
Non invasive vs Invasive
What is invasive mechanical ventilation?
Invasive means they are intubated with either an endotracheal tube or tracheostomy
- Need some sedation to tolerate tube (endo or trachy)
What is non-invasive mechanical ventilation?
Non invasive ventilation means the positive pressure breaths are delivered by a tight fitting mask.
Sicker patients will have _____ ventilation
Invasive
What are postitive pressure ventilators?
What are the 3 modes of mechanical ventilation (depending on how much the patient is in control)?
What are 5 charcateristics of controlled mandatory ventilation as a mode of mechanical ventilation?
- Control mode: Set number of breaths/min
- No spontaneous breaths
- Requires heavy sedation ± paralysing agents
- Usually only in Theatre, tetanus, severe head injury
- Causes respiratory muscle weakness & ? infection
What are the 3 indications of Synchronised intermittent mandatory ventilation (SIMV) as a mode of mechanical ventilation?
- Used in most patients
- Set respiratory rate, ↓ as patient improves
- Weaning from mechanical ventilation
What are the 3 advantages of Synchronised intermittent mandatory ventilation (SIMV) as a mode of mechanical ventilation?
- Improved comfort, synchronised mandatory breaths.
- No breath stacking.
- Reduced respiratory muscle atrophy as some spontaneous ventilation
What are the 3 types of breathes of synchronised intermittent mandatory ventilation (SIMV) as a mode of mechanical ventilation?
Breaths - controlled (C), assisted (A) or spontaneous (S)
- Controlled mandatory breaths - triggered and delivered by the ventilator according to prescribed settings
- Assisted breaths - triggered by Pt, assisted by Ventilator give characteristics of controlled (C) breath – this occurs if a controlled breath is due – looks the same shape as a controlled breath
- Spontaneous breaths - triggered by Pt, assisted by ventilator (with PS) but volume not controlled.
What are patient triggered breaths?
What are 6 adjuncts to ventilators?
- Positive end expiratory pressure
- Pressure support
- Flow-by
- Humidification
- Nebuliser
- Peak flow
What are 4 advantages to postitive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) as an adjunct to ventilators?
- Reduces bronchiolar and alveolar collapse ie holds them open at end of expiration
- Increases FRC
- Allows lower FiO2
- Reduces shunting
Continuous exchange (due to half open bronchioles when using PEEP)
What are 2 disadvantages to postitive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) as an adjunct to ventilators?
- Reduces cardiac output (Stops venous return to heart)
- Increases airway pressure
Increase oxgyen but decrease blood pressure
What does PEEP look like?
NOT IN EXAM
What are 3 (3) characteristics of pressure support as an adjunct to ventilators?
- Augmented pressure during spontaneous breaths
- ↓’s work of breathing (WOB)
- ↑ tidal volume
- As pt initiates breath, PS “lifts up” the breath
- Patient regulates own tidal volume and respiratory rate
- Like being in the ocean
What are 3 characteristics of humidifier as an adjunct to ventilators?
- Airway bypasses natural filtering and humidification
- HME Humidifier moisture exhangers – for short term ventilation
- Electric humidifier – for long term, can overheat, catch fire, become water logged
What are 2 types of accessory modes as an adjunct to ventilators?
NOT IN EXAM
- Flowby (Helps with getting air up)
- Continuous baseline flow
- reduces dead space
- reduces WOB to trigger a breath
- Continuous baseline flow
- Nebuliser (Eg. ventalin or antibiotics)
- Can administer aerosols during ventilation
What is flow by as a types of accessory modes as an adjunct to ventilators?
NOT IN EXAM
Continuous baseline flow
- reduces dead space
- reduces WOB to trigger a breath
What is nebuliser as a types of accessory modes as an adjunct to ventilators?
NOT IN EXAM
Can administer aerosols during ventilation
What are 5 characteristics of peak flow as an adjunct to ventilators?
- How quickly flow enters lungs
- How steep curve is
- COPD patients prefer high peak flow ie fast breath in
- Variable between patients even normals
- Slower ie lower peak flow favours recruitment ie slow breath has laminar flow
- Slow laminar flow (slow inspiration) is better
What are 4 characteristics of pressure support with PEEP as a mode of ventilation?
- One of most commonly used modes
- Full spontaneous mode
- Patient triggered breaths only
- No set tidal volume (VT)
- Cannot set rate or tidal voluming (done by patient)
- Less sedation and more spontaneous breathing
- Can exercise
- Less infection (more pneumonia and DVT with more sedation and sedentary behaviour)
- Less muscle atrophy/wasting
Why do we prefer patient to be spontaneously breathing?
- Less disuse atrophy of respiratory muscles
- Decreased weaning time
- Less need for sedation
- Less sedation – can exercise and mobilize more easily
- Less infection eg ventilator associated pneumonia
What are 2 characteristics of volume controlled ventilation? What are 4 (3) other characteristics?
- Controlled mechanical ventilation
- Synchronized intermittent mechanical ventilation
- Set tidal volume – breath cuts off at set volume
- Set flow rate (high VS low)
- Set respiratory rate ie how many breaths/minute
- Variable pressure – PIP peak inspiratory pressure
- If stiff lung high pressure
- If compliant lung low pressure
- If PIP > 35cmH2O high – stiff lung
What are 8 characteristics of pressure controlled ventilation?
- Set inspiratory pressure – breath cuts off at set pressure
- Set respiratory rate
- Set inspiratory time
- Variable flow - flow synchrony
- Variable tidal volume – will reflect how stiff lung is
- Improved recruitment – long time constants, so beneficial for lung with uneven atelectasis
- Better for patients with high flow requirements or where lung will be easily damaged by high pressure
- Used in paediatrics, severe asthma, COPD
What is the difference between pressure support and pressure control?
Pressure support = adjunct (for spontaneous breathing
Pressure controlled = type of method
What is volume vs pressure control?