This document discusses various modes of mechanical ventilation including CMV, A/C, IMV, and SIMV. CMV provides full ventilatory support with no spontaneous breathing allowed. A/C allows patients to spontaneously breathe in addition to mandatory breaths. IMV delivers mandatory breaths on a timed cycle with spontaneous breathing allowed in between. SIMV improves on IMV by synchronizing mandatory breaths with patient effort to reduce asynchrony. SIMV has advantages over CMV like lower sedation needs and reduced risks of barotrauma and hemodynamic effects.

1. Conventional modes
of ventilation
SIMV

2. Definition: Mode
A mode is a specific combination of it’s
variables (components).
Flow
Volume
Pressure
Time
The Control Variables
Flow

3. Conventional Modes
VCV
PCV
SIMV
SIMV
PSV
A/C
A/C
APRV
BIPAP
MMV
CMV
CMV

4. Controlled Mandatory Ventilation
(CMV)

5. Continuous Mechanical Ventilation
Controlled Mechanical Ventilation
CMV
Terminology = IPPV

6. Volume Controlled Ventilation
PCV
VCV
Pressure Controlled Ventilation
pressure
time
pressure
time
CMV

7. CMV
All the work is done by the ventilator.
The ventilator delivers a preset
• Tidal Volume (VT)
• Respiratory rate (f).
a time-triggered mandatory breathes

8. CMV
In CMV the patient can not breath
Spontaneously.
No gas flow is delivered between
the mandatory breathes.

9. CMV
INDICATIONS
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10. Assist Control Ventilation
A/CV

11. Patient triggering 
CMV + A/CV
Pressure Flow
A/CV

12. The A/C mode does Not allow the pt to
breath Spontaneously in his own Vt.
In A/C the pt may increase the R.R. (assist)
in addition to the preset mechanical R.R. (control).
Each assist breath provides the pt with
the same preset VT.
A/CV

13. P
time
Assisst control
A/CV

14. A/CV
INDICATIONS
Used to provide full ventilatory support for
the patients without fighting the ventilator as in
CMV

15. Rapid breathing leads to Respiratory Alkalosis.
A/CV
Adverse effects:
reduced Te leads to hyperinflation & auto PEEP

16. IMV
Intermittent Mandatory Ventilation


17. IMV mode was originally introduced as a
technique for weaning from IPPV.
IMV

18. IMV system allows “spontaneous” breathing
between “mandatory” tidal volumes
delivered by the ventilator.
IMV

19. • Mandatory breaths: time-cycled
• Spontaneous breath: Patient-cycled
IMV

20.  with IMV there is a Patient-Ventilator A-Synchrony.
 The mandatory breaths are not synchronized with
the pt’s Spont. efforts

21. Synchronized Intermittent Mandatory Ventilation
SIMV

22. The mandatory breathes of IMV is initiated
by and synchronized with, patient effort.
SIMV

23.  It can provide partial ventilatory support.
SIMV
SIMV is now used as an alternative to
conventional CMV A/C.
 It can provide complete ventilatory support.
SIMV is weaning mode

24. A mandatory breaths are synchronized with
the pt’s Spontaneous breathing.
3. Spontaneous breath
2. Assisted breaths: (patient-triggered)
SIMV
In SIMV there is 3 types of breathes
1. Mandatory breaths (time-triggered)

25. Trigger window
pressure
SIMV
is the time interval just before to time-trigger in which
the ventilator is responsive to the pt spontaneous
inspiratory efort and gives assisted breath.
Synchronization Window
Triggering

26. SIMV allows the mech. breath to be delivered in
response to patient’s insp. effort
Time when cycling mechanism is activated
Airway
pressure
cmH2O
Time (sec.)
Spon. Insp.
effort
SIMV

27. Trigger window
SIMV

28. SIMV circuits
Continuous flow
circuit
Demand flow valve

29. 1- SIMV continuous flow circuit

30. Advantage of SIMV over CMV
1- Decreased requirement for sedation and
muscle relaxation.
2- Lower mean airway pressure:
• Less cardiovascular depression.
• Less risk of barotrauma.
• Renal function is preserved.
3- Better matching of V/Q
Reduces ventilation to perfusion (V/Q) mismatch.

31. 4- Easier weaning due to :
• Prevention of respiratory muscle
atrophy / discoordination.
• No respiratory alkalosis.

32. During weaning, the mandatory
ventilation is further decrease in
number as the patient’s ability to
increase his own spontaneous minute
ventilation.