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Article: Getting your patient in tune with pressure support ventilation.(MECHANICAL VENTILATION)
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- FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine
- Article date:
- June 22, 2005
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When mechanical ventilation is initially instituted on a patient, dys-synchrony is not usually problematic, providing the patient is adequately sedated. These patients are on a control mode of ventilation such as volume or pressure assist-control. As a patient begins to improve and they are allowed to wake up, usually during the "weaning" phase, a support mode is sometimes applied. If the patient is uncomfortable and not in tune with the ventilator during a support mode of ventilation, more sedation is needed and the time spent on the ventilator along with the resulting complications will rise. More work is performed by the patient as his condition begins to improve and ...