A patient with neuromuscular disease, Day 5 on the ventilator, appeared quite comfortable when the ventilator mode changed to pressure...

Rise time is the time taken to reach the target pressure in pressure control mode. In this scenario, the triangular shape of the...

All these breaths are triggered by the patient ( Ventilator identified them as patient efforts and labeled them with red color to the...

Three features that differentiate them with normal breaths 1) Strong Pmus (The pressure drop below the PEEP level just before the onset...

Pressure spike near the end of inspiration can occur if there is inspiratory muscle relaxation or active exhalation (delayed cycling)....

There is a significant delay between the onset of the patient's inspiration and ventilator flow delivery (late trigger/delayed...