ASV is an extremely safe mode of ventilation for the respiratory management of your intubated patients. ASV employs lung-protective strategies to minimize complications from AutoPEEP and thus volutrauma/ barotrauma. ASV also prevents apnea, tachypnea, excessive dead space ventilation and excessively large breaths.

It employs lung-protective rules and adjusts the ventilatory pattern based on the patient’s pulmonary mechanics and spontaneous respiratory activity to maintain preset minute ventilation (Branson R et al. RC 2004;49:742-60). ASV guides the patient in a favorable breathing pattern, avoiding potentially detrimental patterns, from fully supported ventilation to extubation.

ASV promotes free breathing for patients in all ventilation modes and phases. It encourages spontaneous activity right from the start of ventilation and promotes weaning from first deployment.