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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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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.
A. Ajao +9 more
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Clinical Practice Guideline of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome [PDF]
Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2016 There is no well-stated practical guideline for mechanically ventilated patients with or without acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). We generate strong (1) and weak (2) grade of recommendations based on high (A), moderate (B) and low (C) grade in
Young-Jae Cho +17 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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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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Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) of mechanical ventilators by clinical engineers
Journal of Intensive Care, 2014 Mechanical ventilator failures expose patients to unacceptable risks, and maintaining mechanical ventilator safety is an important issue. We examined the usefulness of maintaining mechanical ventilators by clinical engineers (CEs) using a specialized ...
Jun Yoshioka, M. Nakane, K. Kawamae
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Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2020 The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has exposed critical supply shortages both in the United States and worldwide, including those in intensive care unit (ICU) and hospital bed supply, hospital staff, and mechanical ventilators.
Mohammad Dar +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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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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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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