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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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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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ATENA–A Novel Rapidly Manufactured Medical Invasive Ventilator Designed as a Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Testing Protocol, Safety, and Performance Validation

Frontiers in Medicine, 2021
Background: The urgent need for mechanical ventilators to support respiratory insufficiency due to SARS-CoV-2 led to a worldwide effort to develop low-cost, easily assembled, and locally manufactured ventilators.
Tiago Rebelo, Elizabete Neutel, Eurico Castro Alves, Francisco Barros, Hélder Oliveira, Humberto Machado, Humberto Machado, Joana Mendonça, Joana Mendonça, João Fortuna Araújo, João Luís, José M. Pêgo, José M. Pêgo, José Silva, Manuel Oliveira, Nuno Sousa, Nuno Sousa, Paulo Figueiredo, Pedro Barata, Pedro Barata, Pedro Barata, Raquel Silva Magalhães, Rui Miguel Magalhães, Sara H. Gomes, Sara H. Gomes, Sara H. Gomes   +25 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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Mechanical ventilation. Part II: Basic principles and function of ventilators. [PDF]

, 2017
Mechanical ventilation is the process of supporting respiration by manual or mechanical means. When normal breathing is inefficient or has stopped, mechanical ventilation is life-saving and should be applied at once.
K. PAVLIDOU (Κ. ΠΑΥΛΙΔΟΥ), I. SAVVAS (Ι. ΣΑΒΒΑΣ), T. ANAGNOSTOU (Τ. ΑΝΑΓΝΩΣΤΟΥ)   +2 more
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Scoring System to Evaluate the Performance of ICU Ventilators in the Pandemic of COVID-19: A Lung Model Study

Frontiers in Medicine, 2021
Ventilators in the intensive care units (ICU) are life-support devices that help physicians to gain additional time to cure the patients. The aim of the study was to establish a scoring system to evaluate the ventilator performance in the context of ...
Xingshuo Hu, Fei Xie, Kaifei Wang, Hongjun Gu, Guoxin Mo, Ruoxuan Wen, Ying Zhao, Qingyun Yang, Knut Möller, Zhanqi Zhao, Zhanqi Zhao, Lixin Xie   +11 more
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GlasVent—The Rapidly Deployable Emergency Ventilator

Global Challenges, 2020
As a result of the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) outbreak, a surge is witnessed in the demand for mechanical ventilators needed for treating affected patients.
Adamos Christou, Markellos Ntagios, Andrew Hart, Ravinder Dahiya   +3 more
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Mechanical ventilator test protocol for care of patients with COVID-19 in porcine model

Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 2021
As a result of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, health systems globally have seen a dramatic increase in the occupancy of intensive care units, with mechanical ventilators being a resource in high demand in the care of these patients.
Giovanni García-Castro, David Latorre-Galeano, Ángela María Giraldo-Montoya, Rodolfo Adrián Cabrales-Vega, Enrique Isaza-Velásquez, José Fernando Gómez-González, Juan Carlos González-Corrales, Álvaro Ardila-Otero, Indhira Tatiana Flórez-Castañeda, Juan Fernando Chica-Builes, Ángela María Martínez-Ávila, Luz Victoria González-Colonia   +11 more
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