Summary: Interpretation and management of patient ventilator asynchrony
Speaker:
Daniel Fein, MD
Assistant Professor, Pulmonary Medicine
Director of Inpatient Pulmonary Services
Director of the Montefiore Wakefield Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center
Video Editor:
Editor: Kyle Swartz, DO
Key points
- Ventilator asynchrony is common and associated with adverse outcomes
- Asynchrony may occur during breath triggering, breath delivery or ventilator cycling.
- To manage double triggering, consider increasing the inspiratory time instead of increasing patient sedation.
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