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Critical Care Nursing in a Resource-Constrained Setting: A Qualitative Study of Critical Care Nurses’ Experiences Caring for Patients on Mechanical Ventilation

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.
Paulus Mukuve PGDip, Vistolina Nuuyoma PhD   +1 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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Mechanical-Ventilation Supply and Options for the COVID-19 Pandemic. Leveraging All Available Resources for a Limited Resource in a Crisis

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, Lakshmana Swamy, Daniel Gavin, A. Theodore   +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, Ehtisham Ahmed, Ahmad khan, Zeeshan Rafiq   +3 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, Gilberto Friedman, Paula Caitano Fontela, Luiz Alberto Forgiarini Jr.   +3 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, Sanjay Orathi Patangi, Kumar G Belani, Muralidhar Kanchi   +3 more
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Effect of dynamic random leaks on the monitoring accuracy of home mechanical ventilators: a bench study

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2013
BackgroundSo far, the accuracy of tidal volume (VT) and leak measures provided by the built-in software of commercial home ventilators has only been tested using bench linear models with fixed calibrated and continuous leaks.
A. Sogo, J. Montanyà, E. Monso, L. Blanch, X. Pomares, M. Luján   +5 more
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Indications and practical approach to non-invasive ventilation in acute heart failure [PDF]

, 2017
In acute heart failure (AHF) syndromes significant respiratory failure (RF) is essentially seen in patients with acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema (ACPE) or cardiogenic shock (CS).
Bueno, Hector, Christ, Michael, Cowie, Martin, Cullen, Louise, Disomma, Salvatore, Filippatos, Gerasimos, Gale, Chris P., Harjola, Veli Pekka, Lettino, Maddalena, Maisel, Alan S., Martin-Sanchez, F. Javier, Masip, Josep, McMurray, John, Mebazaa, Alexandre, Miro, Oscar, Mueller, Christian, other, and, Peacock, W. Frank, Platz, Elke, Price, Susanna, Ruschitzka, Frank, Seferovic, Petar, Tavares, Mucio, Vrints, Christiaan, Zeymer, Uwe   +24 more
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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, Tsolmon Begzjav, Ganbold Lundeg, Andreas Brunauer, Martin W Dünser   +4 more
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