The Asthma Patient

The concept of high flow nasal canula is essentially, if you provide enough flow into the nasopherinc a couple of things are going to happen. So first of all, you're going to wash out more and rof the dead space. And then the second thing that's going to happen, as you can get a little bit of peep or alittle bit of end expatory pressure. We're not talking about a ton here, but that's another thing that can happen. The most important thing is really just to be titrating the device at the bedside with the respire theropist,. see what their title volumes are, and just kind o keep on working with them