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FLOW VS Slope in Ventilation

🔑 Take-home
✅️Flow is quantity
✅️Slope is speed of acceleration
✅️Both affect PIP, but in different ways

🫁In asthma, slow both down

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Decorticate vs Decerebrate Posturing
⭐ What they indicate
Both are abnormal posturing seen in severe brain injury, especially with increased intracranial pressure (ICP).
Decorticate: lesion above red nucleus → flexor pathways dominate
Decerebrate: lesion below red nucleus → extensor pathways dominate

So, decerebrate = more severe injury pattern.

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The utilization of a minimally invasively placed catheter-mounted intravascular micro-axial flow blood pump (IMFBP) is increasing in the population with advanced heart failure. The current development of IMFBPs dates back around the 1990s, namely the Hemopump with a wire-drive system and the Valvopu...

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Are you ready for a new career or a career change? Get on your computer now and apply! www.centralvirginia.edu. It is that easy! Apply to CVCC and see a counselor to get started with your new career or career change as a Respiratory Therapist!