Protective Lung Strategies

[Banned]

http://www.ards.org/learnaboutards/trea ... egies.html

I had a Minute Ventilation alarm go off once for two nights running while on AVAPS. Does anyone know what a Minute Ventilation is?

As far as lung protection I may not have blown my lungs out yet, but the effect maybe cumulative?

Banned

[-SWS]

Banned, minute volume is the total volume of air respirated or breathed over a minute. The minute ventilation alarm means minute volume dropped below an acceptable threshold.

My understanding is that protective lung strategies are methods of providing mechanical ventilation (to patients with acute lung injury/illness) such that risk of further lung injury is minimized. Those strategies can entail limiting pressure plateaus, low tidal volumes, minimizing the work of breathing with PEEP, etc. However, the benefits for each of those techniques or strategies must be weighed against any possible detrimental affects of failing to meet the most basic biologic requirements of respiration (e.g. maintaining sufficient blood gases, keeping the airway clear, etc.)

http://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/content/full/128/5/3089