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Upcoming Webinars

ICON Academy Webinars

Proportional Pressure Support - Ventilation Concepts
  • Date: Sep 11, 2018 12:00 PM Eastern
  • Speaker: Geof Lear, RRT
Purpose/Objectives

One of the major goals of mechanical ventilation is supporting patients with respiratory insufficiency. A major challenge to this goal is having good synchronization between the mechanical ventilator and the patient. Proportional ventilation might offer the best systems yet devised for assisting patients with respiratory insufficiency. This lecture will concentrate on the unique aspects of proportional ventilation as compared to current standard forms of mechanical ventilation and how different ventilating systems address this issue.

Objectives
  1. Discuss the concepts that define proportional ventilation
  2. Apply the concepts of proportional ventilation to the ventilator settings used for proportional ventilation
  3. Recognize the importance of appropriate alarms during the application of proportional ventilation

Contact Hours: 1

FREE for members.

AARC, ANCC, CaBon

Proportional Pressure Support - Applications
  • Date: Sep 25, 2018 12:00 PM Eastern
  • Speaker: Maria Madden MS, RRT-ACCS
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Contact Hours: 1

FREE for members.

AARC, ANCC, CaBon

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ABOUT ICON

Intensive Care On-line Network (ICON) was established September 2001 with the mission to promote successful implementation of ICU therapies and technologies by offering on-demand 24x7 clinical focused support service.

After more than a decade of providing clinical, educational and technical support in the ICU, ICON has emerged as the industry leader. We utilize state-of-the-art methods to improve the end user's experience with ICU technologies and therapy implementation.

Education can be delivered in real-time to anyone, anytime, and nearly anywhere in the world.

Upcoming Webinars
25 Sep
Proportional Pressure Support - Applications — 12:00 PM

22 Oct
Ventilator Graphics I — 7:00 AM

In this presentation we will be discussing the time scaler waveforms of the basic control types seen in mechanical ventilation. The lecture ...

22 Oct
Identifying Burnout and Building Resilience (Ethics Lecture) — 12:00 PM

Forum Posts
We did a trial of the RAM vs the F&P HFNC. At the end of the day both products do the same job - deliver a level of CPAP support based on flow regulation. We trailed both products extensively using 3 modes of delivery: wall flow meters, bubble PAP and via the Draeger V500 NICU vents O2 Therapy setting. We were looking to measure 2 main outcomes. 1. Comfort for the bub, as defined by objective data on sleep cycles, questionnaire to parents on their perception of bubs level of comfort and subjective data as defined by physiological variables such as pain/agitation scores, HR, BP. 2. Effect on respiratory function and time to weaning to regular nasal cannula. The latter was defined by O2 requirements, RR, pulse oximetry and overall time on high flow therapy. Outcomes? In terms of comfort, it was readily apparent that the fisher paykel cannulas were a superior product. In terms of resp function there was no difference between the groups. I can't say much more as we are still writing this up for publication, but from my observation I would choose the F&P cannula over the RAM.
RAM Cannula

At my facility we use the oxygen therapy for our trach patients who are weaned to Trach masks while in the ICU.
Oxygen therapy

Only concern I have is the Bias flow in the Pulmonetics ventilator. I believe it is 10lpm. Too high for such therapy.
RAM Cannula

Yes we use the RAM in our NICU on the PB 840 ventilator for NIPPV and NCPAP.
RAM Cannula

I'm just curious to see how many are using oxygen therapy on the drager ventilators?
Oxygen therapy