AARC Clinical Practice Guideline: Patient-Ventilator Assessment.

ABSTRACT: Given the important role of patient-ventilator assessments in ensuring the safety and efficacy of mechanical ventilation, a team of respiratory therapists and a librarian used Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation methodology to make the following recommendations: (1) We recommend assessment of plateau pressure to ensure lung-protective ventilator settings (strong recommendation, high certainty); (2) We recommend an assessment of tidal volume (V_T) to ensure lung-protective ventilation (4-8 mL/kg/predicted body weight) (strong recommendation, high certainty); (3) We recommend documenting V_T as mL/kg predicted body weight (strong recommendation, high certainty); (4) We recommend an assessment of PEEP and auto-PEEP (strong recommendation, hi

SUBMITTER: Goodfellow LT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11298231 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature