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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 151: Breathing Trials with Karsten Roberts

Are awakening trials just for breathing trials? How do we set patients up for successful breathing trials to minimize time on the ventilator? What role does sedation and mobility play into prompt liberation from mechanical ventilation? Karsten Roberts, MSc, RRT, FAARC joins us now to dive deep into spontaneous breathing trials in the ABCDEF Bundle.

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Episode 192: Debunking Myths – Sedation and Ventilator Asynchrony

For years we have been taught at the bedside that sedation “improves ventilator asynchrony”. We have believed that patients must be sedated to be compliant with the ventilator. Is that true? What does the research show? Sylvia Stefanos, PharmD, BCCCP joins us armed with the evidence and ready to debunk the myths. Episode Transcription Kali

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Walking From ICU Episode 86 Ventilator Management in the Awake and Walking COVID19 Unit

Walking Home From The ICU Episode 86: Ventilator Management in the Awake and Walking COVID19 Unit

How is the “Awake and Walking ICU” keeping their COVID19 patients mentally and physically functional during severe COVID19? Do they face constant ventilator asynchrony and how do they deal with it? Geoff shares with us his vast experience as a respiratory therapist in walking patients on mechanical ventilation during critical illness and now COVID19. Episode

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