A 65-year-old man is intubated on ICU. The respiratory therapist notes that the ventilator is delivering breaths that are interrupted before the patie...

Question

A 65-year-old man is intubated on ICU. The respiratory therapist notes that the ventilator is delivering breaths that are interrupted before the patient's inspiratory effort has ceased, causing the patient to 'double-trigger' - receiving two stacked breaths. What type of patient-ventilator asynchrony is this?

Accepted Answer

Premature cycling (early cycling)

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Auto-triggering

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Delayed cycling (late cycling)

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Flow starvation

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Trigger delay

uk-fficm MCQ (SBA): Patient-Ventilator Asynchrony