Question

Explain auto-triggering:

Answer 1

Ans) Auto-triggering, which happens when a ventilator breath occurs without patient effort, and is associated with low respiratory drive, prolonged exhalation time in the absence of PEEPi, cardiogenic oscillation, hiccup, low triggering threshold, water in the circuit, or circuit leak.

- Auto trigger mode is typically used when you don't know what your signal will look like and therefore just want to capture everything, regardless of whether or not your trigger condition was met. You will want to use normal trigger mode when you only want to acquire specific events specified by the trigger settings.