Mechanical Ventilation

Guidelines for viewing online CME

1. Please login to your account at https://cme.raaonlinecertify.com with details already provide to you.
2. To enroll for the CME, please click on the ‘TAKE THIS CME’ button on the top right of the web page.
3. Your access to the CME starts when you buy this course and ends in one month.
4. Please note that the duration of this CME is one month and the fees include the fees payable to TNMC for credit hours.
5. All Videos and Tests will be accessible during this period.
6. Please note that the processes associate with this CME are automating and hence, an extension of this deadline is not a possibility.
7. A Video should be viewed fully for it to be considered complete.
8. Once a Video lecture is fully viewed, please click on the ‘Complete’ button appearing below the video player.
9. You will be able to see your progress in the Progression Bar at the upper part of the page.
10. The Videos can be watch multiple times. Minimum is once. There is no maximum number for which a video can be repeatedly watched.
11. Click ‘Finish CME’ once complete. Please note that you will be allow to re-take Tests and re-watch Videos even if you have completed the modules.
12. We will be automatically intimate by the system when we complete watching all the videos and have complete the quiz with an overall score of at least 50%.
13. We will be notifying TNMC of the list of delegates who have complete the CME.
14. Your access to the CME will stop at the end of the last day of the month. Kindly complete the modules in time before that. An extension is not possible.
15. The Credit Hours Certificate will be issued by the TNMC to eligible delegates on their registered Email ID.
16. If you need any assistance or clarifications, please feel free to contact the Academic Director, Dr. Shyam T, at 9884748671, or the Organizing Secretary, Dr. Ranjith K, at 9841136568.

Good Luck!

Mechanical ventilation from time immemorial has been the mainstay of critical care. Despite so many modes and a plethora of ventilators available from various vendors, clinicians continue to face problems regarding the appropriate selection of mode for various ailments. It’s perhaps the first area of technology where artificial intelligence was incorporate before this terminology became popular in other spheres. This online site RAAONLINE will take you on to journey from basics to advance modes and experts will try to offer customized solutions to various problems facing by clinicians in day-to-day life.

– Physiological effects of positive pressure ventilation

– Understanding ventilator jargon and components

-Conventional modes: CMV, ACMV, SIMV, PS, PEEP, CPAP

– Decoding ventilator graphics

– Waveforms and alarms: How to troubleshoot?

-Non-invasive ventilation

-What to Monitor during mechanical ventilation?

-Initiation and management of a patient on ventilatory support

– Newer & Advance Modes: When to use them?

– Prone ventilation: What an intensivist should know?

-Disease-specific ventilation: ARDS, COPD, Asthma

-Ventilatory support: What not to do?

-Weaning from mechanical ventilation

-Neonatal Ventilation

– The patient-ventilator: asynchrony

– Difficulty in weaning: How to proceed

-Hands-On ventilator