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Nick Mark, MD :verified:

Here's a teaching case that *everyone* who touches a ventilator needs to understand:

A 60 yo woman is intubated for hypoxemia from pneumonia. She has a SpO2 of 88% on PEEP +12 and 100% FiO2. PEEP is increased to +16 & her SpO2 drops to 80%.

What happened?

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