Mechanical Ventilation Essentials

Pulmonary

The team at Medmastery are providing LITFL readers with a series of FOAMed courses from across their website.

Description

In this course we’ll teach you everything you need to know about mechanical ventilation during your first night in the ICU, how to make initial adjustments in a newly intubated patient, how to fine-tune the ventilator settings to manage patients with restrictive or obstructive respiratory disease, and how to get your patient ready for extubation. We’ll take you from respiratory rookie to rockstar!

Course Details

37 Lessons

5 Quizzes

3 CME

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Course Highlights

AC/SIMV modes

Josh Cosa • Jun 18, 2022

AC/SIMV modes

Checking out the Mechanical Ventilation Essentials course today with a video exploring assist control (AC) and synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation (SIMV) modes on a ventilator.


Volume vs Pressure Control

Josh Cosa • Jun 19, 2022

Volume vs Pressure Control

Today we explore the Mechanical Ventilation Essentials course with a video explaining why volume control is the preferred initial type of ventilation Assist control (AC) and synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation (SIMV) modes


Alveolar disease

Josh Cosa • Jun 20, 2022

Alveolar disease

Today look at the Mechanical Ventilation Essentials course with a video providing key observations related to managing ventilated patients with airway disease and/or alveolar disease.


Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

Josh Cosa • Jun 21, 2022

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

Looking at acute respiratory distress syndrome today with a video from the Mechanical Ventilation Essentials course exploring the most common oxygenation and ventilation complications associated with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

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