Posts Tagged ventilation
Learn to Love the Mask
Posted by Scott D. Weingart, MD FACEP in Critical Care on February 5th, 2010
photo by upeslases
Intubation is a sexy procedure, there is no doubt about it.
In the EMCrit podcast # 19, I discuss Non-Invasive Ventilation. NIV does not have the glamor; it’s not nearly as cinematic as endotracheal intubation. But for the patient, to spend 30 minutes on a NIV mask is preferable to a couple of days on the ventilator. In this episode, I discuss some of the basic ideas and methods of NIV.
It is pretty simple as the mode only has 3 main settings:
