Tuesday Edition
Every Tuesday: 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, ICCN publishes a bedside-actionable summary on ARDS, modes, settings, waveforms, and the trials that should change what you set at the start of every shift.
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Tuesday · Pulmonary & Mechanical Ventilation
September 8, 2026
ATS has published the first guideline spanning all of acute respiratory failure. In the one population we argue about most, the panel declined to choose
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Tuesday · Pulmonary & Mechanical Ventilation
September 1, 2026
The tracheostomy literature studies the day the tube goes in and the day it comes out.
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Tuesday · Pulmonary & Mechanical Ventilation
August 25, 2026
We have taught for thirty years that a little pressure support compensates for endotracheal tube resistance. Someone finally measured it against the patient's own effort after extubation
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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. Tuesdays are about that team.
— Javier Amador-Castaneda, BHS, RRT, FCCM, PNAP
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