This document discusses ventilation challenges in patients with obstructive airway disease. Increased airway resistance from conditions like bronchospasm can lead to inefficient exhalation requiring prolonged expiratory time. This can result in breath stacking where the patient triggers another breath before fully exhaling, and gas trapping where extra air remains in the alveoli at expiration's end, increasing end-expiratory pressure known as auto-PEEP. Diagnosing these issues involves seeing if expiratory flow doesn't reach zero or wheezing persists to the next breath. Managing them includes increasing exhalation time, decreasing tidal volume, adjusting ventilator settings accordingly based on the mode used.