Mechanical ventilation SDL

INTENSIVE

• also see Respiratory Failure SDL

Alfred ICU 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)

Quiz 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 Presure-Volume Loops
• Electrical impedence 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
• Intubation and Mechanical Ventilation Complications
• 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 Dyssynchrony
• Postive 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
• Weaning from ventilation hot case

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.