Functional principles of positive pressure ventilators: implications for patient-ventilator interaction.
Ventilator performance can be tied to the individual systems that control delivery of pressure, volume, and flow. Clinician's need not be engineers but should understand how individual device mechanics and algorithms can affect patient ventilator synchrony.
Branson
Richard D
RD
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0558, USA. richard.branson@uc.edu
D000399:Air Pressure; D000403:Airway Resistance; D006801:Humans; D008170:Lung Compliance; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods*; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015656:Respiratory Mechanics / Q000502:physiology*