Recognizing and Correcting Patient-Ventilator Asynchrony
Ensuring patient-ventilator synchrony is a vital component of the respiratory therapist’s role in critical care. This webcast will focus on providing the respiratory therapist with the tools to identify various types of asynchrony using ventilator graphics and recommend appropriate interventions to improve the patient’s condition.
Successful completion of this course requires a score of 70% on the post-test.
Original webcast date: December 11, 2019
**Please note that all programs require the participant to view the entire program prior to taking the final quiz and obtaining a course certificate.**
2023
Approved for 1.00 CRCE Hours.
SEMINAR OBJECTIVES
Identify various types of asynchrony using pressure-time and flow-time graphics
Discuss the cause or discrepancy between the patient’s physiology and ventilator programmed breath delivery
Recommend possible ventilator setting modifications to correct the identified asynchrony