The Pressure Plateau feature on the Uni-Vent^® 754 Eagle™ is designed to prevent pulmonary barotrauma to the ventilated patient. Pulmonary barotrauma can be described as an injury to the lung that results from the hyperinflation of the alveoli past their rupture point. Any situation which exposes the patient’s lung to excessively high pressures can cause this type of injury. Depending on the disease state and clinical condition, each patient’s ability to tolerate high pressure is different. Impact Instrumentation designed the Uni-Vent^® 754 with this concern in mind when they created the Pressure Plateau feature. Enabling this feature prevents the patient’s lung from being exposed to a pressure level higher than what the clinician will allow. If a condition arises that will cause a high pressure situation to occur and the Pressure Plateau feature is enabled, the excess pressure above the user set level will be bled out of the patient’s breathing circuit. This will not stop the breath from being delivered; we are only limiting the amount of peak pressure the lungs will see.