Monitoring Mechanical Ventilation Using Ventilator Waveforms

Dr. Jean-Michel Arnal is an anesthesiologist specialized in intensive care medicine. He is senior intensivist in the Hopital Sainte Musse, Toulon, France; he also works as a medical research manager at the research department of Hamilton Medical, Switzerland. After studying medicine in Paris, he specialized in anaesthesiology, medical intensive care and hyperbaric medicine in Marseille. He has established a home ventilation unit and a mechanical-ventilation training center in Toulon. Dr. Arnal has published around 50 articles in international, peer-reviewed journal. His primary interests include mechanical ventilation, ARDS, closed loop ventilation, non-invasive ventilation, and home long-term ventilation. He teaches at international workshop on mechanical ventilation and is a speaker at international meetings. Dr. Arnal is an expert in mechanical ventilation, a respected researcher and speaker at international conferences and has been teaching this topic for many years.

Basics.- Controlled ventilation modes.- Passive expiration.- Spontaneous ventilation modes.- Non invasive ventilation.- PV curves.- Esophageal pressure curve.- Responses to test.

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