Initial Settings
This mode of ventilation only require to sit the patients’ Ideal
Body Weight (IBW) for the ventilator to calculate and determine the
needed volume also the clinician chose the patients gender, PEEP,
high pressure alarm which is set10 cm H2o above the limit and finally,
the clinician set the minute ventilation % (MV%) according to the
recommended support needed depending on the lung pathology as
shown in (Table 1).
Mode Management
There are many published method of ASV mode management by
means of reducing the MV%. However, there is no enough evidence
to support the implementation of one against the other. Studies
recommend weaning the MV% once the patients’ condition is
improving [4], while others found no difference in patients’ outcomes
once compared between weaning it or not [5].