
Episode 40: OR Vent modes
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
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How to Extivate a Spine Surgeon Using Ntitle C O Two
Patients can breathe spontaneously during big spine cases while they're prone, if the surgeon is using neurmonitoring and you aren't using paralytic. This will increase their drive to breathe as their pc o two goes up. Once they 're breathing, then you can switch them either to pressure support or all the way to manual. Extivation criteria usually include the ability to take good tital volumes of at least five m ls per kilo; maintain a normal oxygen saturation,. having no ongoing surgical bleeding or any concern for major acid base disorders.
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