If in volume control and you select a decelerating ramp pattern (which seems to be the recommendation) then the scalers look much different … more like what you would see if the patient was in pressure control. To piggyback off this, when in volume control performing an inspiration hold, should the ventilator be set to a square waveform flow pattern for the most accurate plateau pressure measurement?
@@WhiteboardMedicine I feel like I need to add it was before disposable vent tubing. We had to soak it in cidex, brush and then hang to dry in a heated dryer. Once that done it was packaged and sealed. Yuck !! Also learned to draw ABG’s in a glass syringe. We would heparinize the needles prior. Afterwards, the glass syringes were washed and dried. Double yuck !! This was before the hep B vaccine came out. How we didn’t all get Hepatitis I will never know.
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