Description
Week 1
Start making sense of the ventilator screen. This week focuses on oxygenation and ventilation, key settings and monitored values, ABGs, and a practical approach to identifying what is happening with your patient. You will also begin working through cases in the Ventilator Simulator.
Week 2
Move from reading the screen to understanding how the patient and ventilator work together. This week explores modes, triggering, work of breathing, pressures, waveforms, and the mechanics behind how ventilator support is delivered.
Week 3
Now we start making decisions. Work through changing patient presentations, connect physiology to ventilator support, and explore how settings such as FiO₂, PEEP, respiratory rate, and tidal volume affect the patient. You will put these concepts into practice through full clinical cases in the Ventilator Simulator.
Week 4
Bring everything together by working through ventilator alarms, patient deterioration, and changing clinical conditions. You will practise a systematic approach to figuring out what changed, what needs your attention, and what to do next.
Objectives
By the end of the Ventilator Intensive, learners will be able to:
- Interpret key ventilator settings, monitored values, pressures, and volumes.
- Differentiate oxygenation problems, ventilation problems, and combined respiratory failure using clinical assessment, ventilator data, and blood gases.
- Explain how common ventilator modes deliver support and identify how the patient and ventilator contribute to each breath.
- Assess work of breathing and recognize common patient-ventilator asynchrony.
- Interpret changes in peak pressure, plateau pressure, compliance, resistance, and auto-PEEP in the context of the patient.
- Apply principles of lung-protective ventilation when assessing ventilator support.
- Connect changes in FiO₂, PEEP, respiratory rate, tidal volume, and other ventilator parameters to their expected physiological effects.
- Use a systematic, patient-first approach to assess ventilator alarms, changing respiratory status, and patient deterioration.
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