Question

All breaths are volume cycled; there are a minimum number of time-triggered breaths and the patient may trigger any number of breaths above the preset respiratory rate.  Patient triggered breaths are synchronized in with time triggered breaths.

Answer 1

#. Synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation (SIMV) - which senses patient inspiratory effort and enables the patient to receive “synchronized” patient-triggered mandatory breaths up to the set rate