• Resp Care · Feb 2011

    Review

    Patient-ventilator interaction in the long-term acute-care hospital.

    • Maher Ghamloush, Heidi H O'Connor, and Alexander C White.
    • Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
    • Resp Care. 2011 Feb 1;56(2):207-13.

    AbstractOptimizing patient-ventilator synchrony is essential in managing patients who require prolonged mechanical ventilation in the long-term acute-care hospital. Inadequate synchrony can increase work of breathing, cause patient discomfort, and delay both weaning and general rehabilitation. Achieving optimal synchrony in the long-term acute-care hospital depends on a number of factors, including adjusting ventilator settings in response to improving lung function; adjusting psychotropic medications to control delirium, anxiety, and depression; and ensuring there is a well positioned correctly sized tracheostomy tube in the airway. The purpose of this review is to provide an update on issues pertinent to patient-ventilator synchrony in the LTACH setting.

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