What is Peak and Plateau Pressure in Mechanical Ventilation?

What is peak and plateau pressure and why do we need to know what they are? How can they help us treat our mechanically ventilated patient? I hope I go a little way to explain.

I have also made courses for you on NIV, Rapid sequence Intubation and the Anatomy of the airway- https://criticalcarepractitioner.podi...

This is the webpage I have also created on this topic- http://www.jonathandownham.com/mechan...

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