SAGE Open Nursing, 2023 Introduction Managing a patient on mechanical ventilation is a vital aspect of clinical scope in intensive and critical care units. In addition, it is a highly technical, intricate, dynamic task requiring extensive knowledge and skills.
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Development of safe and effective indigenous intensive care unit ventilators for COVID-19 pandemic
Indian Journal of Respiratory Care, 2021 Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 has spread rapidly worldwide infecting ≥4 million people including ≥2.9 million deaths and overwhelming health-care systems globally.
Anup Daniel Varghese +3 more
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Increasing compliance with low tidal volume ventilation in the ICU with two nudge-based interventions: evaluation through intervention time-series analyses [PDF]
, 2016 Objectives: Low tidal volume (TVe) ventilation improves outcomes for ventilated patients, and the majority of clinicians state they implement it. Unfortunately, most patients never receive low TVes.
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A Novel Mixed Finite/Infinite Dimensional Port–Hamiltonian Model of a Mechanical Ventilator
ComputationMechanical ventilation is a life-saving treatment for critically ill patients who are struggling to breathe independently due to injury or disease. Globally, per year, there has always been a large number of individuals who have required mechanical ...
Milka C. I. Madahana +2 more
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Design and performance testing of a novel emergency ventilator for in-hospital use
Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy, 2020 Background The rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased use of critical care resources, particularly mechanical ventilators. Amidst growing concerns that the health care system could face a shortage of ventilators in the future, there is ...
Knorr Jacob M. +8 more
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Sensitivity and Specificity of the Comfort Scale to Assess Pain in Ventilated Critically Ill Adult Patients in Intensive Care Unit [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Pain is a common phenomenon experienced by ventilated and critically ill adult patients. It is urgent to measure the pain among these patients since they are unable to report their pain verbally.
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Invasive Mechanical Ventilation [PDF]
Southern Medical Journal, 2018 Invasive mechanical ventilation is a potentially lifesaving intervention for acutely ill patients. The goal of this review is to provide a concise, clinically focused overview of basic invasive mechanical ventilation for the many clinicians who care for mechanically ventilated patients.
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Trauma and Critical Care for the Senior Medical Student Entering Surgery
MedEdPORTAL, 2014 Introduction Skills to aid in the management of trauma patients and critically ill surgical patients in the intensive care setting are important topics that are not uniformly covered in medical schools.
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Improvements in natural air supply concerning thermal winter comfort, IAQ and energy consumption [PDF]
, 2016 The paper presents the effect on thermal conditions, heat consumption and the perception of thermal comfort and indoor air quality (IAQ) of different types of trickle ventilators (pressure controlled at 2 Pa pressure difference or 10 Pa with(out) back ...
Candaele, Arnaud +4 more
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Proper Use of Mechanical Ventilators [PDF]
, 1972 The proper use of mechanical ventilators is related to many problems; however, the primary one is the knowledge of the physician, nurse, inhalation therapist, and other paramedical personnel with a given ventilator. It is important to remember that there
Baker, James P.
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