Adaptive Support Ventilation (ASV) is a ventilation mode that selects and continuously adapts respiratory rate, tidal volume, and inspiratory time depending on the patient’s lung mechanics and effort.
Breath by breath, 24 hours a day, from intubation to extubation.
ASV automatically employs lung-protective strategies to minimize complications from AutoPEEP and volutrauma/barotrauma (
Within the rules of this lung-protective strategy, ASV encourages the patient to breathe spontaneously (
In this video, Dr. Jean-Michel Arnal, Senior Intensivist, gives you a quick demonstration of the main functionalities and settings in ASV on a real ICU patient.
ASV is a standard ventilation mode on all our critical care ventilators.