A Patient Receiving Continuous Mandatory Ventilation in the Assist-Control Mode

question 48

Multiple Choice

A patient receiving continuous mandatory ventilation in the assist-control mode develops auto-PEEP. Which of the following general approaches would you consider to minimize the effects of auto-PEEP in this patient?
1) Increasing expiratory time
2) Applying PEEP
3) Switching ventilating mode to synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation

• A)1 and 2 only
• B)1 and 3 only
• C)2 and 3 only
• D)1, 2, and 3

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