Chapter 1 Key ideas

1. Most patients who require mechanical ventilation do well with the assist-control mode.
   
    
   
   
2. Patients with acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome have better outcomes with a low tidal volume, low plateau pressure ventilation strategy.
   
    
   
   
3. Nurses should keep the head of the bed elevated and monitor gastric residuals. These precautions reduce the frequency of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
   
    
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