A patient with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) ha…
A patient with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has developed a pneumothorax from elevating peak and plateau pressures. The patient is currently being ventilated in the volume-controlled continuous mandatory ventilation (VC-CMV) mode with a set rate of 12 breaths/min. However, the patient is triggering the ventilator at a rate of 25 breaths/min. The arterial blood gas reveals ventilator-induced hyperventilation with corrected hypoxemia. The most appropriate recommendation to manage this patient on the ventilator is which of the following?
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A 5’10” male patient CHF has been intubated and requires mechanical ventilation with volume-controlled continuous mandatory ventilation (VC-CMV). The tidal volume and ventilator rate settings that should be recommended for this patient are which of the following?
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