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“Essentials of Ventilator Graphics”

Thank you for purchasing the Institutional Copy of Essentials of Ventilator Graphics.
This copy contains a unique Power Point presentation with more than 70 slides you can use as a teaching tool to provide continuing education to your staff. Every slide has self-running animations. Once you have viewed a slide just click your mouse to transition to the next slide.

This CD was designed to familiarize clinicians with the most common patterns of ventilator graphics encountered in the ICU. The emphasis of this module is on the recognition of the normal scalar graphics and loops and its different components. The most common abnormalities are not only explained on the Word document but also illustrated on Power Point.

Before you start viewing Essentials of Ventilator Graphics, we strongly recommend you read this page for it contains important information that will facilitate the navigation process.

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I. FIRST THINGS FIRST

• Essentials of Ventilator Graphics was created using Microsoft Power Point® and Microsoft Word®. • When viewing Word documents, we suggest you use the Page or Print Layout View by selecting it from the VIEW command on the tool bar. • In order to facilitate the navigation through the module, multiple hyperlinks have been created within the Word document and between the Word Document and the Power Point presentations. • These hyperlinks are easily recognized in the Word document: o The text containing the hyperlink is underlined. o The color of the font is blue, and when pointing the cursor to the text, a small box will have a bookmark reference. • Before you start, we would like you to try the following hyperlink that should take the cursor to the beginning of this paragraph. “First Things