Ventilation: Volume vs Pressure Control
The team at Medmastery are providing LITFL readers with a series of FOAMed courses from across their website.
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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“I received my license to practice in 2003 and I have been teaching, managing, monitoring, and modifying ventilator settings ever since. I live in Southern California and have learned from and worked with some of the best teachers anyone could meet.“
Josh Cosa MA, RRT-ACCS, RRT-NPS, RCP
Respiratory care practitioner, Clinical Education Manager at Philips
Associate Professor Curtin Medical School, Curtin University. Emergency physician MA (Oxon) MBChB (Edin) FACEM FFSEM Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Passion for rugby; medical history; medical education; and asynchronous learning #FOAMed evangelist. Co-founder and CTO of Life in the Fast lane | Eponyms | Books | Twitter |