The nurse knows that a deeply sedated head-injured patient is likely to have the best ventilatory outcome with which of the following modes of ventilation?
1. synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation (SIMV)
2. assist-control ventilation
3. intermittent mandatory ventilation (IMV)
4. pressure support ventilation
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Rationale: With assist-control ventilation, every breath is a machine breath. At the appropriate settings, this is desirable for a deeply sedated head-injured patient who is unlikely to initiate spontaneous breaths. Both SIMV and IMV rely on the patient spontaneously breathing through the circuit to do much of the work of breathing. This will not happen in a deeply sedated patient.
Pressure support ventilation is an adjunctive weaning mode, which would not be effective for a deeply sedated patient.
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