title: Applications of a noninvasive respiratory volume monitor for critical care medicine.
abstract: Respiratory volume monitoring (RVM) has been developed to noninvasively measure minute ventilation (V̇E), tidal volume, and breathing frequency and to display real-time respiratory curves in nonintubated patients. Although RVM was originally developed for post-anesthesia and monitored anesthesia care, we describe 3 applications for this monitor in an otherwise austere setting at a missionary hospital in Kijabe, Kenya. Applications of RVM can be utilized in any ICU in a developing or developed country.
authors: Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee and the Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. joseph.j.schlesinger@vanderbilt.edu.
authors: Joseph J
authors: JJ
authors: Schlesinger
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007630:Kenya; D008176:Lung Volume Measurements / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D063087:Noninvasive Ventilation; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D012119:Respiration; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: critical care medicine; minute ventilation; respiratory physiology; respiratory volume monitoring