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Air–Oxygen Blenders for Mechanical Ventilators: A Literature Review [PDF]

Sensors, 2022
Respiratory diseases are one of the most common causes of death in the world and this recent COVID-19 pandemic is a key example. Problems such as infections, in general, affect many people and depending on the form of transmission they can spread ...
Gabryel F. Soares, Otacílio M. Almeida, José W. M. Menezes, Sergei S. A. Kozlov, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues   +4 more
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Incidence and factors associated with agitation in patients on mechanical ventilators in Amhara Region, North-West Ethiopia: a multi-center study [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Agitation is a common psychomotor disorder among critically ill patients on mechanical ventilators, posing significant risks to patients and adding strain to clinical services.
Temesgen Birlie Asmare, Hailu Yimer Tawuye, Biresaw Ayen Tegegne, Biruk Adie Admass   +3 more
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Performance assessment of a ventilator developed for emergency use in a resource-constrained ICU setting during the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]

BioMedical Engineering OnLine
Background The Masi mechanical ventilator was developed in Peru, designed and manufactured as a rapid-response to the healthcare emergency. Its promising pre-clinical and clinical results allowed it to be approved by the national regulatory authority to ...
Sergio Sánchez-Gambetta, Giuliana Arrunategui-Salas, Juan L. Barrios-Morocho, Ricardo A. Hora, Sandra Pérez-Buitrago, Benjamin Castañeda, Albert H. Kwon, Christoph G. S. Nabzdyk, Fanny L. Casado   +8 more
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Mechanical Ventilators circuit types

Journal of Mechanical Ventilation, 2023
Clinicians might have opportunities to recognize different types of mechanical ventilators circuits and compare them in critical care situations. As a clinician it is important to know the features of those configurations and take them into consideration
Kimiyo Yamasaki
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Frugal Innovation: Enabling Mechanical Ventilation During Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic in Resource-Limited Settings

Critical Care Explorations, 2021
ICUs worldwide are facing resource shortages including increased need for provision of invasive mechanical ventilation during the current coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Chintan Dave, MD, Paul Cameron, MD, John Basmaji, MD, Gordon Campbell, PhD, Edward Buga, MD, Marat Slessarev, MD, PhD   +5 more
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Design and performance of a flow sensor CoroQuant used with emergency lung ventilator CoroVent during COVID-19 pandemic

Measurement: Sensors, 2022
At the time of COVID-19 pandemic onset in spring 2020 a project CoroVent was initiated with the aim to design and produce emergency lung ventilators and distribute them to hospitals. No flow and tidal volume sensors were available for the project.
Ladislav Bís, Karel Roubík
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Development of a prognostic scoring system in patients with pneumonia requiring ventilator care for more than 4 days: a single-center observational study [PDF]

Acute and Critical Care, 2021
Background The aim of the present study was to develop a prognostic model using demographic characteristics, comorbidities, and clinical variables measured on day 4 of mechanical ventilation (MV) for patients with prolonged acute mechanical ventilation ...
Yeseul Oh, Yewon Kang, Kwangha Lee
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Priorities Towards Fair Allocation of Ventilators During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Delphi Study

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
BackgroundCOVID-19 pandemic has resulted in severe shortage in vital resources, including invasive mechanical ventilators. The current imbalance between demand and supply of mechanical ventilators has called for investigations on the fair allocation of ...
Seyyed-Hadi Ghamari, Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari, Nasim Zamani, Hossein Hassanian-Moghaddam, Ali-Asghar Kolahi   +4 more
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Home mechanical ventilation: back to basics [PDF]

Acute and Critical Care, 2020
Over recent decades, the use of home mechanical ventilation (HMV) has steadily increased worldwide, with varying prevalence in different countries.
Sunghoon Park, Eui-Sik Suh
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PVP1-The People's Ventilator Project: A fully open, low-cost, pressure-controlled ventilator research platform compatible with adult and pediatric uses.

PLoS ONE, 2022
Mechanical ventilators are safety-critical devices that help patients breathe, commonly found in hospital intensive care units (ICUs)-yet, the high costs and proprietary nature of commercial ventilators inhibit their use as an educational and research ...
Julienne LaChance, Manuel Schottdorf, Tom J Zajdel, Jonny L Saunders, Sophie Dvali, Chase Marshall, Lorenzo Seirup, Ibrahim Sammour, Robert L Chatburn, Daniel A Notterman, Daniel J Cohen   +10 more
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