Abstract
Mechanical ventilation is an important and ever-evolving component of everyday critical care. Clinicians can struggle to keep up with current literature and descriptions of advancement in a way that they can apply these changes to their bedside patient care. This article serves as a review of important recent findings related to invasive mechanical ventilation and describes their relevance to bedside critical care.
- mechanical ventilation
- ARDS
- dead-space fraction
- HFOV
- PEEP
- ABCDE bundle
- ventilator-associated condition (VAC)
Footnotes
- Correspondence: Keith D Lamb RRT-ACCS, Adult Critical Care, Respiratory Care Services, Iowa Methodist Medical Center, UnityPoint Health, 1200 Pleasant Street, E-208, Des Moines, IA 50309. E-mail: keith.lamb{at}unitypoint.org.
Mr Lamb has disclosed relationships with GE Healthcare, Masimo, and Sunovion.
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