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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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The COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: analysis of supply and demand of hospital and ICU beds and mechanical ventilators under different scenarios.

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2020
This study aims to analyze the pressure on the Brazilian health system from the additional demand created by COVID-19. The authors performed a series of simulations to estimate the demand for hospital beds (health micro-regions) as well as to ICU beds ...
Kenya Noronha, G. Guedes, C. Turra, Mônica Viegas Andrade, L. Botega, D. Nogueira, Júlia Almeida Calazans, L. Carvalho, L. Servo, Monique Félix Ferreira   +9 more
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Novel design of inspiratory flow generation and gas mixing for critical care ventilators suitable for rapid production and mass casualty incidents

Scientific Reports, 2023
Scarcity of medical resources inspired many teams worldwide to design ventilators utilizing different approaches during the recent COVID-19 pandemic.
Karel Roubik, Vaclav Ort, Lenka Horakova, Simon Walzel   +3 more
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COVID-19: intensive care units, mechanical ventilators, and latent mortality profiles associated with case-fatality in Brazil.

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2020
In response to the accelerated increase in the number of COVID-19 cases, countries must increase their supply of beds in intensive care units (ICUs). Respiratory diseases, neoplasms, cardiopathies and hypertension, and diabetes are associated with higher
R. Moreira
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Comparison of 2 Triage Scoring Guidelines for Allocation of Mechanical Ventilators

JAMA Network Open, 2020
Key Points Question What are the characteristics of intensive care unit admissions identified by 2 proposed pandemic ventilator allocation triage guidelines using Sequential Organ Failure Assessment scores when applied retrospectively to critically ill ...
H. Wunsch, A. Hill, N. Bosch, N. Adhikari, G. Rubenfeld, Allan J. Walkey, B. Ferreyro, B. Tillmann, A. Amaral, D. Scales, E. Fan, B. Cuthbertson, R. Fowler   +12 more
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Inverse Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Application in Low‐Cost Ventilators

Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021
The procurement and maintenance cost of high‐end ventilators preclude their stockpiles sufficient for the mass emergency situations. Therefore, there is a significant demand for mechanical ventilators in such situations. Herein, a low‐cost, portable, yet
Seyed M. Mirvakili, Douglas Sim, Robert Langer   +2 more
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The Impact of High-Flow Nasal Cannula Use on Patient Mortality and the Availability of Mechanical Ventilators in COVID-19

Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2020
Rationale: How to provide advanced respiratory support for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to maximize population-level survival while optimizing mechanical ventilator access is unknown. Objectives: To evaluate the use of high-flow nasal cannula for COVID-
H. Gershengorn, Yue Hu, J. Chen, S. Hsieh, Jing Dong, M.N. Gong, Carri W. Chan   +6 more
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Conditioning in an organic greenhouse [PDF]

, 2011
Botrytis cinerea is one of the main postharvest problems in gerbera cut flowers. There are clear differences among growers in the percentage of flowers showing symptoms of Botrytis infection after harvest.
Raaphorst, M.G.M.
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COVID-19: instruments for the allocation of mechanical ventilators—a narrative review

Critical Care, 2020
After the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic, the elaboration of comprehensive and preventive public policies became important in order to stop the spread of the disease.
M. J. dos Santos, Maristela Santini Martins, Fabiana Lopes Pereira Santana, M. Furtado, F. C. B. R. Miname, R. Pimentel, Ágata Nunes Brito, Patrick D Schneider, Edson Silva dos Santos, Luciane Hupalo da Silva   +9 more
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