Common causes of clinical analysis of ventilator alarm.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 Common causes of clinical analysis of ventilator alarm [Key Words] mechanical ventilation; breathing machine; alarm With the development of critical care medicine, mechanical ventilation life support and respiratory therapy as an effective method has been widely used in emergency, ICU and respiratory therapy and other fields [1]. Ventilator used voice-activated alarms and alarm light control of both the police, United States Respiratory Therapy Association recommends the ventilator alarms according to their degree of urgency and danger into 3 grades. now our hospital wards RICU May 2006 ~ May 2007 in 125 patients occurred during mechanical ventilation alarms reviewed 860 times analysis. 1 Materials and Methods 1.1 General information on 125 cases of mechanically ventilated patients, male 75 cases, female 50 cases. Aged 33 to 85 years, mean 59 years old. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with respiratory failure caused 85 cases of type , 10 cases of acute pulmonary edema, acute respiratory distress comprehensive sign (ARDS) 10 cases of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome in 20 cases. 1.2 Methods The patients were taken through the oral airway intubation or tracheotomy connected artificial airway breathing machine, ventilator Drager Company of Germany series ventilator Evita4, Evita2dura, Savina. Using counting process of the above in patients with mechanical ventilation cause alarm itemized statistics, draw conclusions, the data in 860 cases meeting the ventilator alarm, the alarm level of 516 is the first time, accounting for 60.0%; is the second level of alarm 170 cases, and accounted for 19.8%; is the first three-level alarm times for the 174 cases, accounting for 20.2%. 2 cause of the alarm analysis and treatment measures 2.1 high tidal volume tidal volume alarm limit high-limit alarm the most common cause of the respiratory machine to send any gas rises above the upper limit of the tidal volume set to high tid