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Episode 25: Advanced Ventilator Modes With Dr. Scott Stephens

Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast

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How to Wean Post Operative Cardiac Surgery Patients

The way this works is the machine will calculate the what it thinks is the best respiratory rate and tidle volume based on the patient's mechanic. The one thing we have run into trouble sometimes is because the machine targets a minute ventilation, or a percentage of a minute ventilation. So you do need to pay it's not just a auto pilot weaning. You've to pay attention what the patient actually looks like onit, right? And so in post op cartiac surgery patients, for example, some increased efficiency, some lowered weaning time, faster weaning time.

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