Mechanical ventilation doesn’t have to feel like wizardry. In this podcast episode, we strip it back to what really matters—simple mental models, clean decision-making, and an approach that works whether you’re in the back of a helicopter, a tight ambulance box, or a chaotic ED bay.
We walk through the foundational concepts and the “why” behind each knob you touch. Then we zoom in on the Hamilton T1, the vent many of us love, hate, and still rely on every single shift. We cover what the T1 gets right, where people get tripped up, and how to let the machine work with you instead of against you.
If you’ve ever wished mechanical ventilation felt less like memorizing settings and more like understanding physiology in motion, this episode will tighten up your practice and give you tools you can use on your very next flight or transport.
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Guest
Melody Bishop (B.Sc.) is a Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) and a Certified Clinical Anaesthesia Assistant (CCAA). She has worked in diverse areas of critical care medicine for almost 20 years with special focus in intensive care, prehospital and critical care transport and the operating room. Her love for complex medical challenges brought her to the flight medicine world, where she worked as a critical care first responder flying into remote communities in Northern Canada. In her roles as a Clinical Educator for a large critical care transport company and a college professor, she has been involved in teaching and educating a wide range of medical professionals over the last decade at the post-secondary, post-graduate and professional level—specializing in paramedicine, critical care RN and physician mechanical ventilation training. Her mission as a teacher is to simplify the “scary” topic of ventilation and respiratory physiology and present it to all medical professionals in an easy to understand and approachable way.
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