To properly set up APRV on your patient which of the following must occur?

You have started NIV on a 68 kg IBW patient, and after 4 hours their WOB has gone down and they appear comfortable: Looking at the ventilator values and vital signs below, what is the next change you should make?

Using Nasal Pillows to deliver NIV to a patient in acute ventilatory distress would NOT be recommended because:

PSV is set as a backup in NAVA in case:

A reason for going straight to intubation instead of attempting NIV would be:

An advantage to using NAVA instead of PSV while ventilating a COPD patient would be:

A weakness of the mode PSV would be:

You are intiating a patient on APRV with these settings: Thigh 5.0 s, Tlow 0.8 s Phi 24,  Plow 0 After changing over to these mode what is the most important thing to assess?

You are ventilating a pt in APRV. When you do a Pplat maneuver you notice that Pplat is the same as PIP. This would be because:

While ventilating with ASV, what will the ventilator do if the current MV is above the targeted value and the patient is breathing spontaneously?