Open AccessPressure Regulated Volume Control (PRVC): Set it and forget it?
Author(s) -
Gurkeerat Singh,
Christina Chien,
Sharad Patel
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
respiratory medicine case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2213-0071
DOI - 10.1016/j.rmcr.2019.03.001
Subject(s) - medicine , ventilation (architecture) , volume (thermodynamics) , tidal volume , pressure control , anesthesia , positive pressure ventilation , intensive care , mode (computer interface) , intensive care medicine , respiratory system , computer science , respiratory failure , engineering , mechanical engineering , thermodynamics , medical physics , operating system , physics
Pressure-regulated volume control (PRVC) is a mode of ventilation in which the ventilator attempts to achieve set tidal volume at lowest possible airway pressure. This mode of ventilation is being commonly used as the initial mode of ventilation in many intensive care units. We describe two cases where this adaptive mode of ventilation became maladaptive leading to patient-ventilator dyssynchrony.
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