Caring for the patient receiving mechanical ventilation is complex and multifaceted. This collection of videos provides detailed discussions with experts on three facets of optimizing mechanical ventilation: humidification, prevention of ventilator-associated events, and patient-ventilator synchrony.
This course includes the following videos:
- Humidification During Mechanical Ventilation - A Review of the Literature (Richard Branson and Thomas Kallstrom)
- VAP to VAE: Implications for the Respiratory Therapist (Dean Hess and Kathy Deakins)
- Optimizing Patient-Ventilator Synchrony (Robert Kacmarek and Douglas Laher)
**Please note that all programs require the participant to view the entire program prior to taking the final quiz and obtaining a course certificate.**
This course includes the following videos:
- Caring for Patients with Chronic Critical Illness (Shannon Carson and Neil MacIntyre)
- Managing the Chronically Ill Pediatric Respiratory Patient (Bruce Rubin and Timothy Myers)
- Get 'Em Movin' - Early Mobility for Ventilator-Dependent Patients (Eddy Fan and Dean Hess)
**Please note that all programs require the participant to view the entire program prior to taking the final quiz and obtaining a course certificate.**
- Program #2: Explain why monitoring of ventilator-associated pneumonia is unreliable; given FiO2 and PEEP, determine whether a ventilator-associated condition is present; distinguish between ventilator-associated condition, infection-related ventilator-associated complication, possible and probable ventilator-associated pneumonia; describe strategies that can be used by respiratory therapists to lower the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia
- Program #3: Discuss the differences in gas delivery between volume and pressure ventilation and how it affects the likelihood of asynchrony; discuss steps to take to reverse flow asynchrony in both volume and pressure ventilation; discuss the impact of air trapping on the development of asynchrony and methods of reducing asynchrony; discuss under what circumstances cycling asynchrony develops and how to correct it
- Program #1: Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of HME’s and heated humidifiers; describe the impact of HME deadspace and resistance on work of breathing and ventilation efficiency; list the salutary effects of heating and humidifying inspired gases during non-invasive ventilation; describe the impact of humidification devices on the risk of ventilator associated pneumonia