adaptive support ventilation

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adaptive support ventilation

Abbreviation: ASV

A mode of mechanical ventilation in which the minute ventilation is not allowed to fall below a set threshold (e.g., in adults, below 100 ml/kg/min), but the inspiratory pressure, inspiratory time, and tidal volume are all adjusted by the ventilator to the patient's needs.

See also: ventilation

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Two commercially available automated ventilatory modes include adaptive support ventilation (ASV) and proportional assist ventilation (PAV).

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Adaptive Support Ventilation (ASV[R]) and our award winning interfaces provide extremely easy operation to fine tune to the patient's precise ventilatory needs.

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Adaptive support ventilation (ASV), first described in 1994 by Laubscher and colleagues, is a microprocessor-controlled closed-loop method of intelligent automatic establishment and breathby-breath adjustment of mechanical ventilation.