Patients often require mechanical ventilation in disease states characterized by impaired gas exchange, ventilation-perfusion mismatching, reduced alveolar ventilation, increased work of breathing, and poor oxygenation. The ability to achieve the goals of mechanical ventilation without causing adverse cardiovascular effects
and lung tissue damage is essential. The most important parameters to program in mechanical ventilation are the ventilation mode, (volume, pressure or dual), modality (controlled, assisted, support ventilation), and respiratory parameters. The main parameters are tidal volume and minute volume in volume modalities, peak pressure (in pressure modalities), respiratory frequency, positive end expiratory pressure, inspiratory time, inspiratory flow, inspiratory-to-expiratory ratio, time of pause, trigger sensitivity, support pressure, and expiratory trigger sensitivity. For your initial discussion post, determine one parameter for mechanical ventilation, explain and describe the effect of change to the parameter on a waveform.
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