Introduction

Scott Wengard: Today we're talking about A-VAPs, average volume assured pressure support. What the hell is that? You should know it's a mode that may be you tile for you when you have a patient with hypercapnic respiratory failure. And I'm joined by one of my former fellows, Alex Bracy,. We're going to have a good chat about A- VAPs and then at the end I'll talk about some of the papers and such like that. All right, so let's roll right into it.