Adaptive ventilation modes offer clinicians a range of benefits by providing sophisticated and responsive respiratory support to patients. These modes use advanced algorithms and feedback systems to automatically adjust ventilation parameters based on the patient’s needs. In the UVENT-S ICU ventilator, we implemented two intelligent adaptive modes: AdVent and ProVent. They provide protective ventilation by adapting to the patient’s breathing mechanics, smart triggering with artifact elimination, and individualized sensitivity for improved synchrony.

Benefits Of Adaptive Ventilation Modes

⚠️ Note: Intelligent ventilation modes are included in the basic configuration of the UVENT-S.
No additional software licenses are required.

1. Personalized Ventilation: Adaptive modes tailor ventilation settings to the individual patient’s respiratory mechanics and condition. This can lead to better patient outcomes by ensuring that each patient receives the optimal level of support.

2. Improved Patient Comfort: By continuously adjusting to the patient’s respiratory efforts and needs, adaptive ventilation can enhance patient comfort, reduce the need for sedation, and facilitate more natural breathing patterns.

3. Enhanced Safety and Lung Protection: These modes help maintain appropriate tidal volumes and pressures, reducing the risk of ventilator-induced lung injury. They adapt to changes in the patient’s condition, compensating for factors like leaks or changes in lung compliance.

4. Reduced Clinician Workload: By automating adjustments, adaptive modes can significantly reduce the workload for healthcare providers. This allows clinicians to focus on other critical aspects of patient care, especially in high-acuity environments like ICUs.

5. Weaning Facilitation: Adaptive modes can assist in the weaning process by gradually reducing support as the patient’s condition improves, which can help in the transition from mechanical ventilation to spontaneous breathing.

6. Comprehensive Monitoring: The advanced monitoring system in UVENT-S provides detailed, real-time data on lung compliance, spontaneous breathing efforts, and ventilation trends. These insights can help clinicians monitor progress more accurately, identify complications early, and adjust treatment strategies as needed.

⚠️ Note: Adaptive modes are just tools — not replacements for medical expertise. They assist, but do not substitute, clinical judgment or decision-making.

Intelligent ventilation modes in UVENT-S

Adaptation to the dynamic patient’s respiratory needs

AdVent mode maintains operator-preset minute ventilation regardless of the patient’s activity and automatically switches to support ventilation, taking into account the patient’s spontaneous respiratory effort. The mode applies a lung protection strategy to increase patient safety and reduce ventilator-related complications.

• Personalized support by adjusting ventilation settings based on the patient’s respiratory activity
• Improved synchrony, enhancing comfort and reducing sedation needs
• Ensures lung protection, potentially reducing the risk of ventilator-induced lung injury
• Can simplify the weaning process, gradually reducing support as the patient improves

ProVent: The Next Step in Intelligent Ventilation

ProVent is an advanced intelligent adaptive ventilation mode designed to optimize patient comfort, safety, and ventilation efficiency by automatically adjusting to the patient’s respiratory demand.
It adapts ventilation settings based on the patient’s status, making it effective during all stages of weaning from mechanical ventilation.

• Smart synchronization at different stages of the breath cycle, minimizing risks of ventilation-associated lung injury and enhancing the weaning process
• Combination of in-breath and breath-by-breath adaptation of key ventilation parameters ^[1]
• Spontaneous breath support by monitoring alveolar pressure and muscle effort
• Tandem breaths during the early weaning stage reduce excessive positive inspiratory pressure exposure ^[2]

References

1. Holanda, M., et al. (2004). Patient-ventilator asynchrony. Revista Brasileira de Terapias Intensivas, 16(4), 321-328. doi: 10.1590/S1806-375644-04-00321
2. Spieth, P. M., et al. (2008). Variable tidal volumes improve lung protective ventilation strategies in experimental lung injury. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 178(9), 1065-1073. doi: 10.1164/rccm.200806-975OC

This content is intended exclusively for healthcare professionals. It is provided for informational purposes only and should not be considered as medical advice or a substitute for clinical judgment.