Learn how elevating the head of the bed 30 to 45 degrees helps reduce aspiration risk and prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Mechanical Ventilation
Heated Humidification: Clinical Uses, Risks, and Benefits
Learn about heated humidification, including how it works, clinical uses, indications, temperature goals, risks, and patient care.
Interfaces for CPAP and BiPAP: Mask Types and Selection
Learn about CPAP and BiPAP interfaces, including nasal masks, full-face masks, nasal pillows, fit, leakage, and patient selection.
Trigger Sensitivity Setting in Mechanical Ventilation
Learn how the trigger sensitivity setting affects mechanical ventilation, work of breathing, patient effort, and ventilator synchrony.
Assist/Control (A/C) Mode of Mechanical Ventilation
Learn how the assist/control (A/C) mode works, including settings, volume vs pressure control, monitoring, and common complications.
Synchronized Intermittent Mandatory Ventilation (SIMV)
Learn how SIMV works, including settings, spontaneous breathing, pressure support, advantages, disadvantages, and weaning considerations.
Ventilator Check: A Guide to Patient-Ventilator Assessment
Learn how to perform a ventilator check, assess settings, pressures, alarms, waveforms, airway status, and patient response.
Positive End-Expiratory Pressure (PEEP): A Complete Guide
Learn what PEEP is, how it improves oxygenation, when it is used, and how to manage auto-PEEP, complications, and ventilator settings.
Pressure Support Ventilation (PSV): A Complete Guide
Learn how pressure support ventilation (PSV) works, including settings, clinical uses, work of breathing, and ventilator weaning.
Lung Recruitment Maneuver: Indications, Steps, and Risks
Learn how lung recruitment maneuvers work, when they are used, how PEEP is adjusted, and the risks and benefits involved.
Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation (NPPV)
Learn how noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) works, including indications, settings, monitoring, benefits, and risks.
Noninvasive Ventilation (NIV): Types, Uses, and Monitoring
Learn about noninvasive ventilation (NIV), its types, benefits, applications, and how it supports patients with respiratory conditions.
Mandatory Minute Ventilation (MMV): Mode and Key Concepts
Learn what mandatory minute ventilation (MMV) is, how this mode works, and why it helps support weaning while preventing hypoventilation.
Spontaneous Breath During Mechanical Ventilation
Learn what a spontaneous breath is during mechanical ventilation, including patient effort, CPAP, pressure support, SIMV, and weaning.
Mandatory Breath During Mechanical Ventilation
Learn what a mandatory breath is during mechanical ventilation, including how it works, key modes, timing, and clinical importance.
Volutrauma: Causes and Risks During Mechanical Ventilation
Learn what causes volutrauma, why it occurs during mechanical ventilation, and how lung-protective strategies help reduce injury.
Inverse Ratio Ventilation (IRV): Benefits, Risks, and Uses
Learn how inverse ratio ventilation (IRV) improves oxygenation, when it is used, and why auto-PEEP and hemodynamic risks must be monitored.
Treating COPD Patients With Mechanical Ventilation
Learn how COPD is treated with mechanical ventilation, including NIV, ventilator settings, auto-PEEP, oxygenation, and weaning.
Barotrauma in Mechanical Ventilation: Causes and Management
Learn what barotrauma is, its causes, signs, and how to prevent and manage this serious complication of mechanical ventilation.
Ventilator-Induced Diaphragm Dysfunction (VIDD)
Learn how ventilator-induced diaphragm dysfunction (VIDD) causes muscle weakness, weaning failure, and prolonged mechanical ventilation.