Tuesday · 06:00 ET Flagship

Mechanical Ventilation and Respiratory Physiology

Every Tuesday morning: where the ICU team converges on the ventilator.

Mechanical ventilation is where the entire ICU team converges — respiratory therapists, intensivists, nurses, and APPs all touching the same patient through the same machine. Every Tuesday at 06:00 ET, ICCN publishes its signature flagship on ARDS, modes, settings, waveforms, and the trials that should change what you set at the start of every shift.

What This Track Covers

Topics on the schedule.

  • Low tidal volume & driving pressure
  • Mechanical power & P-SILI
  • APRV / TCAV (Time-Controlled Adaptive Ventilation)
  • PEEP titration & transpulmonary pressure
  • Prone positioning protocols
  • Patient-ventilator dyssynchrony
  • Oxygen targets, HFNC & NIV

A Note from the Founder

Why Tuesday mornings matter.

ARDS mortality has not meaningfully improved in two decades. The team that understands lung mechanics, driving pressure, and the dialogue between ventilator and physiology is the team that moves the curve. Tuesday’s flagship is about that team.

— Javier Amador-Castaneda, BHS, RRT, FCCM, PNAP

Every Tuesday at 06:00 ET

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