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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Bi-level home ventilators for non invasive positive pressure ventilation
Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2004 With the widespread use of non-invasive positive pressure mechanical ventilation, great efforts have been made to produce machines, the bi-level home ventilators, which are less sophisticated, cheaper and able to better compensate air leaks with respect ...
R. Scala
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Effect of fourth hourly oropharyngeal suctioning on ventilator-associated events in patients requiring mechanical ventilation in intensive care units of a tertiary care center in South India: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Acute and Critical Care, 2023 Background Mechanical ventilation (MV) is a necessary life-saving measure for critically ill patients. Ventilator-associated events (VAEs) are potentially avoidable complications associated with MV that can double the rate of death.
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Distribution of selected healthcare resources for influenza pandemic response in Cambodia. [PDF]
, 2013 INTRODUCTION: Human influenza infection poses a serious public health threat in Cambodia, a country at risk for the emergence and spread of novel influenza viruses with pandemic potential.
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The Toughest Triage - Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2020 The Toughest Triage Of all the medical care that will have to be rationed during the Covid-19 pandemic, the most problematic will be mechanical ventilation.
R. Truog, C. Mitchell, G. Daley
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Evaluation of pressure support ventilation with seven different ventilators using Active Servo Lung 5000 [PDF]
, 2008 In modern emergency and critical care, physicians tend to choose the mode of mechanical ventilation based on spontaneous breathing for the purpose of promoting discharge of pulmonary secretion and preventing atelectasis in patients with acute respiratory
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The mechanics of mechanical ventilation [PDF]
Revista Médica de Minas Gerais, 2014 The Ventilator has represented an advance in the respiratory support for patients on anesthesia and intensive care. The ventilatory support increases the chance of survival in patients with respiratory failure, and / or major surgical procedures. This paper consists of a summary of advances in the ventilatory support, in describing the physiological ...
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 2015 Objective A large-scale public health emergency, such as a severe influenza pandemic, can generate large numbers of critically ill patients in a short time.
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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 ...
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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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