Senior RT, BsRT, RRT| AHA CPR Instructor| | RT Clinical Instructor | Transformative RT manager | AARC, SCCS |
With severe ARDS stages; the patient‘s lung is not recruitable any more . In this case: PEEP of < 10 cmH2O together with prone positioning is the desirable choice.
Respiratory Therapist and Medical Simulation Specialist | Educate clinicians how to deal with mechanical ventilators and give them solutions for medical training.
Lung recruitability assessment is so critical. Depending on CT scan guidance, there're many ARDS-related factors we should think about when it comes to the context of lung recruitabilty Is it - Focal or nonfocal? - Moderate or Severe? - Early or late? - Pulmonary or nonpulmonary? As many studies showed that nonpulmonary, nonfocal, severe, early stage ARDS most probably recruitment maneuver would be beneficial for them.
