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Case 07 — Fighting the ventilator

VCintermediate00:00Score 100
VCintermediate7 min

Case 07 — Fighting the ventilator

Handover

A large, distressed man on VC with Ti 1.0 s and VT 480 mL. The pressure scalar is concave during inspiration. He is fighting the machine. PIP is not high.

Uncorrected hypoxemia, auto-PEEP shock, tension, or abdominal compartment progresses to pre-arrest, then a fail. Read the scalars before you turn a knob.

Goals

  • · Flow starvation resolved