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A patient with an IBW of 55 kg has been on ATC mode for 5 minutes with the following settings below. The patient is awake, alert, and following commands but looks a little uncomfortable. % Support= 80%FiO2=30%Peep=5Flow Trigger= 2E sense= 25%Flow Trigger= 2Patient Data listed below:Spontaneous Respiratory Rate=14Spontaneous VT= 200 mlsVe= 2.8 L/minI:E Ratio= 1:4Vital SignsHR=88RR=14SAT=96%BP= 120/80What changes, if any, can be made that can help improve this patient’s minute ventilation?

Twenty minutes after placing the patient on an SBT, the nurse calls your phone and asks if you could come back to the bedside because the patient looks uncomfortable. You come back and the patient does look uncomfortable and anxious (not severely anxious). Below are the patient’s current settingsPS=0FiO2=30%Peep=5Flow Trigger= 2Expiratory Sensitivity=25%Patient Data listed below:Spontaneous Respiratory Rate=25Spontaneous VT= 150 mlsVe= 3.75 L/minI:E Ratio= 1:4Vital SignsHR=99RR=25SAT=93%BP= 137/80You ask the nurse if anybody has touched the ventilator because the settings on display are not the settings that you placed in the beginning of the patient’s SBT 20 minutes ago. The nurse tells you that a resident came and made a few ventilator changes. What changes, if any, can be done to make the patient more comfortable during their SBT trial?

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