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Respiratory Failure & Mechanical Ventilation

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What change would you do on the ventilator to improve the asynchrony indicated by the green arrows?

  • Decrease Inspiratory time

  • Increase inspiratory time

  • Increase trigger threshold

  • Decrease trigger threshold



Despoina  Papachristou
Mazen Kherallah
Mazen Kherallah
Sep 08, 2022

This patient has delayed cycling asynchrony indicated by the hump at the end of inspiration (expiratory efforts by the patient during inspiratory time of the ventilator breaths). Therefore, the answer is decreasing inspiratory time on the ventilator to allow synchrony with the patient's expiratory efforts.

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