How can we use Intelligent mechanical ventilation to improve patient care in Intensive care unit?
Autori:
Matija Jurjević, Jasminka Kopić, Ivan Mirković, Natalija Mrzljak-Vučinić
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Summary
Despite the fact that mechanical ventilation is one of the main life saving procedures in the intensive care unit, after many conducted studies it is clear that if applied in the wrong way it can cause a lot of damage to the otherwise healthy lung or aggravate lung injury. Keeping this in mind, a modern approach to mechanical ventilation is to maximize individual approach to each patient, meaning to tailor mechanical ventilation to individual patient’s condition. Despite clear results from the studies proving some methods can lead to less lung injury, other studies have shown that in everyday clinical practice these methods are not being applied and parameters needed to calculate them are not being regularly measured. Individualizing mechanical ventilation in our patients from intubation to extubation means using several basic tools with which artificial intelligence can be very helpful. This includes initial optimization of positive end-expiratory pressure, evaluation/application of recruitment maneuvers, using a ventilatory mode capable of constantly adapting to the patients lung condition, optimization of lung gases, optimization of patient-ventilator synchronization by constant monitoring of the ventilatory curves and finally a quality tool to assess weaning readiness and spontaneous breathing with the analysis
of potential problems in this phase and their correction. To achieve all the purposes, it is necessary to use a combination of tools including for example pressure volume tool (PV-tool) plus esophageal pressure measurement, adaptive support ventilation (ASV) plus Intellivent-ASV, Intellisync+ and an enhanced weaning tool (QuickWean) with added spontaneous breathing trial (SBT) tool available on the ventilator. Thanks to the smart technology, by combining these tools it is possible to practically individualize and optimize every breath, and thereby reduce total time on mechanical ventilation as well as weaning procedure time, to facilitate extubation, and in the end to reduce mortality on mechanical ventilation.