Mechanical Ventilation Basics!

You may be asked to help in critical care sometime in the next few weeks and, whilst not expected to look after the ventilator, it might be helpful for you to have a basic understanding of what it is doing and what those numbers mean.

I have produced the Guidelines for the management of tracheal intubation in critically ill adults as a set of infographics which you can have for free from here-


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