Choosing a ventilator for home mechanical ventilation [PDF]
Breathe, 2013 Educational aimsTo discuss the basic principles of ventilator functionTo help the reader to recognise the different features of a home care ventilatorTo outline the advantages and drawbacks of the different home care ventilatorsTo provide some recommendations to facilitate the clinical management of patients on home care ventilatorSummaryMechanical ...
Gregoretti C. +4 more
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Chest Physiotherapy as an Adjunct in a Mechanically Ventilated Infant with Atelectasis: A Case Report [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2023 Atelectasis occurs due to impaired airway clearance or complete airway obstruction caused by inflammation, leading to the collapse of tiny airways either partially or completely. This results in impaired exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen.
R Hemanth Kumar, Aishwarya Nair
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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.
Prasetyo, A. (Awal) +2 more
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An injection and mixing element for delivery and monitoring of inhaled nitric oxide [PDF]
, 2016 Background Inhaled nitric oxide (NO) is a selective pulmonary vasodilator used primarily in the critical care setting for patients concurrently supported by invasive or noninvasive positive pressure ventilation.
Caillobotte, Georges +5 more
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Healthcare Ethics During a Pandemic [PDF]
, 2020 As clinicians and support personnel struggle with their responsibilities to treat during the current COVID-19 pandemic, several ethical issues have emerged.
Iserson, Kenneth V.
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A Nationwide Census of ICU Capacity and Admissions in Mongolia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 In Mongolia, a Central Asian lower-middle income country, intensive care medicine is an under-resourced and-developed medical specialty. The burden of critical illness and capacity of intensive care unit (ICU) services in the country is unknown.
Naranpurev Mendsaikhan +4 more
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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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Cost effectiveness of ward based non-invasive ventilation for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: economic analysis of randomised controlled trial [PDF]
, 2003 OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the cost effectiveness of standard treatment with and without the addition of ward based non-invasive ventilation in patients admitted to hospital with an acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Elliott, M.W. +3 more
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Variable mechanical ventilation [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva, 2017 To review the literature on the use of variable mechanical ventilation and the main outcomes of this technique.Search, selection, and analysis of all original articles on variable ventilation, without restriction on the period of publication and language, available in the electronic databases LILACS, MEDLINE®, and PubMed, by searching the terms ...
Renata Bernardy Prestes +3 more
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Low Cost and Portable Mechanical Ventilator
Sir Syed University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, 2022 This paper presents a low-cost and portable mechanical ventilator in order to contribute towards the increasing demand for mechanical ventilators all over the world due to the global pandemic of COVID-19.
Saim Ahmed +3 more
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