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Late in the evening you receive a page about a patient who is “fighting the ventilator.” You are cross-covering and do not know the patient. Your sign-out sheet says only that she is 68 years old, has severe COPD complicated by pneumonia, and has been in the ICU for the last 3 days. No specific problems are mentioned.

Special Feature: Trouble-Shooting the Ventilated Patient