Ventilation: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
Pulmonary
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Description
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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Course Details
Course 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!
37 Lessons
5 Quizzes
3 CME
Course Highlights
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.
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
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Online Education
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