
Episode 23: Basic Ventilator Review with Dr. Scott Stephens
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
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Recruitment Maneuvrs - Do They Work?
Recruitment manoeuvres tend to work best if the disease is symmetric. Recrut maneuvrs, they've got a roll, but a relatively limited roll,. So this is not something we'regoing to encourage new interns in the i c u to go doing without some supervision and help. If you feel like your patient is drecruiting at the set peep, then do the croup manoeuvre and come down to a higher peep than yourad. The most common way is just to increase peep to 30 or forty centimeters of water for 30 to forty seconds, and then let it go.
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