Patent ID: 9030304
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: A61B,A61M,G08B

Abstract:
1. A ventilator-implemented method for detecting Auto-PEEP during ventilation of a non-triggering patient, the method implemented by a ventilator having at least one processor, the method comprising: receiving one or more ventilatory settings associated with ventilation of the non-triggering patient; determining one or more predetermined thresholds for detecting Auto-PEEP based at least in part on the one or more ventilatory settings; monitoring ventilation of the non-triggering patient to obtain ventilatory data; determining, by the at least one processor, that Auto-PEEP is implicated for the non-triggering patient upon detecting that the ventilatory data breaches the one or more predetermined thresholds; determining a list of entries for mitigating Auto-PEEP based at least in part on identifying the patient as non-triggering, wherein at least one entry of the list of entries is different for the non-triggering patient than for a triggering patient; and issuing a prompt when Auto-PEEP is implicated, the prompt displaying: