Patient-ventilator interactions.
The focus of this chapter has been the information contained in airway pressure, volume, and flow traces from mechanically-ventilated patients. It has not been our intention to make ventilator management recommendations. Practitioners willing to make the effort to interpret patient-ventilator interactions will find it difficult to manage ventilator-dependent patients without feedback from waveform analysis in the future.
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D000403:Airway Resistance; D006801:Humans; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D008176:Lung Volume Measurements; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D012122:Ventilators, Mechanical