Instruction
You are intubating an 8 years old patient after near drowning. What size ETT tube and blade will you use for the intubation? The patient is 68 pounds. What mode of ventilation and initial setting would you recommend. After 3 days in conventional ventilation the patient does not improve, and ground glass opacities are observed in the most recent x-ray. The physician asks you to place the patient in HFOV. What are the initial settings? Why the physician wants to use this method of ventilation? How this ventilator works? Describe the pathophysiology or the why patients develop ARDS after near drowning.