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Mechanical Ventilation Boot Camp Curriculum
Published on: March 12, 2018
The role of computer-based clinical decision support systems to deliver protective mechanical ventilation
Robinder G Khemani1, Justin C Hotz1, Katherine A Sward2
1Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Purpose Of Review:
Mechanical ventilation of adults and children with acute respiratory failure necessitates balancing lung and diaphragm protective ventilation. Computerized decision support (CDS) offers advantages in circumstances where complex decisions need to be made to weigh potentially competing risks, depending on the physiologic state of the patient.
Recent Findings:
Significant variability in how ventilator protocols are applied still exists and clinical data show that there continues to be wide variability in ventilator management. We have developed a CDS, which we are currently testing in a Phase II randomized controlled trial. The CDS is called Real-time Effort Driven ventilator management (REDvent). We will describe the rationale and methods for development of CDS for lung and diaphragm protective ventilation, using the REDvent CDS as an exemplar.
Summary:
Goals for achieving compliance and physiologic objectives can be met when CDS instructions are simple and explicit, provide the clinician with the underlying rule set, permit acceptable reasons for declining and allow for iterative adjustments.
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