Mechanical ventilation SDL

INTENSIVE

• also see Respiratory Failure SDL

Alfred ICU Guidelines- See ICU-NET for the following guidelines

• Airway Management

• Bronchoscopy

• Epoprostenol (Flolan) Guideline

• HFOV Guideline

• Mechanically Ventilated ICU Patients waiting for Theatre

• Nitric Oxide Set Up (Nasal High Flow)

• Nitric Oxide Set Up (Nasal Low Flow)

• Staircase Recruitment Manoeuvre

• Tracheostomy (Percutaneous)

• Tracheostomy (Mini)

• Passy-Muir Valve (Speaking Valve)

Resources (from the LITFL CCC)

• • Adaptive support ventilation
  • Airway Pressure Release Ventilation (APRV)
  • Daily interruptions of Sedation in mechanically ventilated patients
  • Difficult weaning from Mechanical Ventilation
  • Dynamic Pressure-Volume Loops
  • Electrical impedance tomography (EIT)
  • Extubation assessment in the ICU
  • Flow Volume Loops
  • Flow versus Time Graph
  • High Frequency Oscillation Ventilation (HFOV)
  • Intrinsic PEEP
  • Intubation and mechanical ventilation indications
  • Lung recruitment manoeuvres
  • Mechanical Ventilation Overview
  • Modes of Ventilation
  • Neuromusclular Blockade in ARDS
  • Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV)
  • Non-invasive ventilation and asthma
  • Non-invasive ventilation for weaning
  • Open lung approach to ventilation
  • PaO2- FiO2 Ratio
  • Patient-Ventilator Dysynchrony
  • Positive End Expiratory Pressure (PEEP)
  • Pulmonary Mechanics
  • Protective lung ventilation
  • Prone position and mechanical ventilation
  • Selective Lung Ventilation
  • Setting Up A Ventilator
  • Spontaneous breathing trial
  • Ventilation Literature Summaries
  • Ventilator associated lung injury
  • Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP)
  • Ventilator Waveform Analysis
  • Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation

Other information (particularly useful for CICM trainees)

• ARDS: An evidence-based update by Rob Mac Sweeney, from smaccGOLD (2014)
• Schmidt M, Pellegrino V, Combes A, Scheinkestel C, Cooper DJ, Hodgson C. Mechanical ventilation during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Crit Care. 2014 Jan 21;18(1):203. doi: 10.1186/cc13702. PubMed PMID: 24447458; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4057516. [Free Full Text]
• Keyword search the FCICM Fellowship exam database on LITFL for relevant past questions.
• Weaning from ventilation hot case
• List of past fellowship questions on Mechanical Ventilation (Deranged Physiology)