Hi Mike, I'm a vet who works in critical care in Australia where we every so often need to ventilate a dog or a cat with paralysis due to tick or snake bite. This video was so helpful, everything so clearly explained and demonstrated. Thank you!

Thank you Soo useful

VERY HELPUL Thanks so much!!!

Can't stand Trilogy vents!! Client falls asleep and they go off!! Give me an LTV 1150 ANY DAY!!

Such a cute ventilator!!!!!! I love ventilators!!!!

Such a cute ventilator! ! ! I love ventilators! ! ! ! !

I need to warn you. If you do not have a heated wire circuit, and you use a conventional pass over humidifier WITHOUT a heated wire, PREPARE to get SISC/SENSE ALARMS, and get autocycling. You're going to get water trapped in the exhalation valve, and that's going to upset the whole valve, you will get alarms, and then it's going to be a royal pain getting those to stop. By the time you get the humidity low enough to actually not cause this, your patient is NOT going to have an actual ACCEPTABLE amount of humidity. You're going to have tracheostomy secretions that are EXTREMELY thick, and you're going to have bleeding from the irritation. TRUST ME. I have a trach, I have an LTV 1150 and have a humidifier that doesn't have a heated wire. I have VERY THOROUGH EXPERIENCE WITH THIS ISSUE. My company doesn't stock heated wires, much less the humidifiers with the Heated wire. I tried to get that solved, but LOST the battle. So, what did I do? I said, "FORGET IT!!" LOL So I use an HME to get a little bit more humidity, but that's A LITTLE BIT MORE. I'm still bleeding from my tracheostomy tube, and yeah, I'm frustrated, but there's nothing that can be done, so I said? What? "FORGET IT!" It's a lost cause.

Your videos are absolutely wonderful. PLEASE DO MORE

apparently 16, there is no HME on this circuit.

Why would you put an HME in line when you already have a humidifier? You're setting the patient up for increased work of breathing when the moisture from the humidifier gets trapped in the HME. Just a thought...

I loooooooooooove medical equipment. PLEEEEEEASE DO MORE VIDEOS on the LTV. I love machines due to my health issues. I use a ventilator.