Ventilators can damage the lungs but we have learned how to use them with little or no damage by adjusting tidal volumes and pressures. By the time you are on a vent the lungs are already not working well, that is why you are on the vent in the first place.
Don’t try....he doesn’t listen..and knows everything.
And their lungs were pretty good....It was just support....
“Ventilators can damage the lungs but we have learned how to use them with little or no damage by adjusting tidal volumes and pressures. By the time you are on a vent the lungs are already not working well, that is why you are on the vent in the first place.”
Mechanical ventilation is a life-saving intervention in critically ill patients with respiratory failure due to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Pathological lung over-distension caused by mechanical ventilation at high tidal volumes, however, transmits pathologic mechanical stress to alveolar epithelium and pulmonary vasculature, leading to barrier dysfunction. Thus, mechanical ventilation also creates excessive mechanical stress that directly augments lung injury in established ARDS, a syndrome known as ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI).