Monitoring The Patient - Weinmann MEDUMAT Standard2 Instructions For Use Manual

4 Preparation and operation

4.8 Monitoring the patient

88 EN MEDUMAT Standard
During ventilation, you must monitor the patient continuously.
You can see the ventilation progress on the gauge, on the
ventilation curves and on the measurements shown on the display
of the device (see "3.3.2 Ventilation mode (example)",
All the measurements shown for flow, tidal volume and minute
volume relate to standard body temperature and ambient
pressure (BTPS (Body Temperature and Pressure, saturated):
Volume at current ambient pressure and 37°C, with 100%
saturated gas).
High airway resistances, e.g., due to obstructions of the airways or
during external chest compression, may change the respiratory
minute volume, depending on the ventilation mode.
In the event that the compliance of the lungs is reduced, during
volume-controlled ventilation the device reacts by increasing the
ventilation pressure to the set pressure limit whilst the ventilation
volume remains constant. Then the applied volume drops.
Ventilation progress before and after
Pressure
mbar
30
pInsp
20
10
0
4-3 Ventilation progress before and after a reduction in
compliance (during volume-controlled ventilation)
2
a reduction in compliance
pMax
page 23).
Time