Basic Ventilator Settings

This 11-minute quick video examines basic ventilator settings and abbreviations such as rate, tidal volume, PEEP, and the modes of ventilation commonly encountered for patients with respiratory failure and ARDS.

Written and presented by Julie Miller, BSN, RN, CCRN-K. Julie Miller is a Clinical Practice Specialist with the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. She currently serves as the Clinical Lead and one of the content experts for AACN’s Essentials of Critical Care Orientation (ECCO) eLearning program. She has an extensive background in adult critical care and maintains her CCRN-K certification. For 18 years of her 36 year nursing career she served as a critical care nursing professional development specialist ensuring a comprehensive orientation for novice acute, progressive, and critical care nurses. Julie’s passion is to ensure nurses have the evidence and education to provide the very best care for their patients.