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Volume SIMV mode
In synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation (SIMV), mandatory and demand breath
types can deliver. Mandatory breaths deliver when the SIMV Time window is open as a
patient eort is detected, the breath interval elapses when no patient eort is detected or
the MANUAL BREATH key is activated.
Primary controls: Active in Volume
SIMV mode are Rate, Volume, Peak
Flow, Inspiratory Pause, PSV, PEEP,
Flow Trigger and %O
2
.
Advanced settings: Available in
Volume SIMV mode are Vsync*,
Vsync Rise*, Volume Limit, Sigh*,
Waveform, PSV Rise, PSV Cycle,
PSV Tmax, Demand Flow, Bias
Flow, Flow Cycle++, Waveform
and Pressure Trigger.
* Available for adult and pediatric
patients only.
++Only available when Vsync is active.
Volume SIMV with mandatory (1) and
assisted (2) breaths