Saikiran Mandyam, Muhammad Qureshi, Yamini Katamreddy, Devam Parghi, Priyanka Patel, Vidhi Patel, Fnu Anshul
Mechanical ventilation serves as crucial life support for critically ill patients. Although it is life-saving prolonged ventilation carries risks and complications like barotrauma, Ventilator-associated pneumonia, sepsis, and many others. Optimizing patient-ventilator interactions and facilitating early weaning is necessary for improved intensive care unit (ICU) outcomes. Traditionally Pressure support ventilation (PSV) mode is widely used for weaning patients who are intubated and mechanically ventilated. Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) mode of the ventilator is an emerging ventilator mode that delivers pressure depending on the patient's respiratory drive, which in turn prevents over-inflation and improves the patient's ventilator interactions...
November 15, 2023: Journal of Intensive Care Medicine