CareFusion Children’s Health LTV Manual page 7

THE LTV FRONT PANEL-VENTILATOR SETTINGS
Your child's doctor will order the ventilator settings. They are ordered based on your child needs. We will teach
you the settings you will need to know for your child's ventilator. Don't feel like you need to memorize these
definitions this page is for your reference.
1. Breath Rate: the number of breaths per minute your child will get from the ventilator.
2. Tidal Volume: the amount of air that goes into your child's lung each breath.
3. Pres. Control: the amount of pressure that is applied to the lungs when your child breathes in.
4. Insp.Time: this is the amount of time the pressure is applied to the lung.
5. Pres. Support: the amount of pressure that the ventilator applies to the lungs during a breath your child
takes on their own.
6. Sensitivity: this is how easy it is for your child to get a breath from the ventilator.
7. Alarm Limits: these are limits that protect your child from too much and/or too little pressure from the
ventilator.
8. Mode: this is ordered by your child's doctor and will be a pressure or volume mode.
PEEP: this is a constant pressure that still flows even when your child breaths out.
Use this picture and fill in the ordered ventilator settings for your child with the help of your respiratory
therapist. This will help you remember your settings when you go home. We suggest you write these settings in
pencil and bring this picture to vent clinic and also change the settings on the picture when you change them
on the ventilator.
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Your child's doctor will order any changes made to the settings on the ventilator.
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