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#206 Airway Management for the Non-Intensivist

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Do You Have a High Plateau Pressure?

Peak and plateau gives you information about lung compliance. If someone has a high plateau pressure, is that a patient that you identify as like, this person's in trouble? I don't really know how to troubleshoot this one. So if we think about the things that you want to monitor after you're intubated patient, it's PF ratio or oxygenation index. It indexes the ratio to the mean error pressure (PAO2) of delivering ventilator air into lungs. And so, again, in a volume assist mode, it's uh, peak and plateau on top of PAO2.

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