Mandatory breaths during pressure-controlled mechanical ...

[burchfield96]

Mandatory breaths during pressure-controlled mechanical ventilation (pressure-controlled con-tinuous mandatory ventilation) are cycled into expiration by which of the following?
 
  a. Time c. Volume
  b. Flow d. Pressure

Question 2

The ventilator mode that is either patient triggered or time triggered and allows the patient to breathe spontaneously between mandatory ventilator breaths is known as:
 
  a. Pressure-support ventilation c. Intermittent man-datory ventilation
  b. Pressure-controlled ventilation d. Continuous man-datory ventilation

[joneynes]

Answer to Question 1

ANS: A
All pressure-controlled continuous mandatory ventilation breaths are time cycled.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
Intermittent mandatory ventilation is designed to deliver volume-targeted or pressure-targeted breaths at a set minimum frequency (i.e., it is time triggered). Between mandatory breaths, the patient can breathe spontaneously from the ventilator circuit without getting the set volume or pressure from the ventilator itself.

[burchfield96]

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