Anaes Vivas · Anaesthetic ventilators
Clinical viva — setting the ventilator for the routine case
A clinical viva on the routine ventilator setup — the lung-protective tidal volume on the predicted body weight, the PEEP, the rate and the FiO2, the mode choice, and the monitoring of the driving pressure.
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Prompt
A junior colleague asks how you set the ventilator for a routine general-anaesthetic case in an adult. Walk through the initial settings and the principles behind them.
Stimulus
A junior colleague asks you to explain how you set the ventilator for a routine general-anaesthetic case in a healthy adult. Walk them through the initial settings and the principles.
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- [7]Bersten AD, Soni N (eds) Oh's Intensive Care Manual. 8th edition, Elsevier, 2018.