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This review highlights how modern bedside technologies, like lung ultrasound and electrical impedance tomography, enhance patient-ventilator management. These tools offer improved insights into patient-ventilator interactions, crucial for critical care, especially during severe respiratory illnesses like COVID-19.

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  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Respiratory Physiology
  • Medical Technology

Background:

  • Current mechanical ventilation management relies on traditional parameters like airway pressures and flow.
  • Graphical analysis of these parameters offers deeper insights into patient-ventilator interactions.
  • The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for advanced respiratory support strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review established knowledge on mechanical ventilation.
  • To explore emerging bedside technologies for optimizing patient-ventilator management.
  • To provide insights into extended monitoring options for critically ill patients.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of traditional and advanced monitoring techniques in mechanical ventilation.
  • Discussion of physiological principles underlying patient-ventilator interactions.
  • Overview of mobile technologies like lung ultrasound and electrical impedance tomography.

Main Results:

  • Graphical analysis of traditional parameters reveals complex patient-ventilator dynamics.
  • Advanced bedside technologies offer new pathways for physiological monitoring.
  • These technologies aid in optimizing ventilation for patients with severe pulmonary conditions.

Conclusions:

  • Integrating advanced bedside monitoring enhances the management of ventilated patients.
  • Mobile technologies like lung ultrasound and electrical impedance tomography are valuable tools in intensive care.
  • Optimizing patient-ventilator synchrony is a critical skill supported by these innovations.