How to Ventilate a Paralyzed Patient

The best thing resource have probably seen on this is a paper by david tuxon from the late 19 eighties, and the more recent podcast he recorded with the intensive podcast. A fairly simple summary of his strategy is a respirator atof a round et to ten breaths a minute with a tidal volume of somewhere around 708 hundred mills. So without even touching the i e ritio in your ventilator, you will end up with an expiritory time of around four seconds. An aspirational goal of less than 25 centimeters of water seems very reasonable. And finally, my preference would be to have these people deeply sidiated, and even paralyzed, i suppose.