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Background: Using mechanical ventilation devices has unique advantages for the patient; however, it can also cause various problems. This study aimed to determine the effect of using communication boards on the ease of communication and anxiety in ...
Seyede-Roghayeh Hosseini +2 more
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Challenging COVID-19 with Creativity: Supporting Design Space Exploration for Emergency Ventilators
The high concentration and rapid increase in lung diseases caused by COVID-19 has suddenly led medical staff to face a lack of ventilators in emergency situations.
Lorenzo Fiorineschi +2 more
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Mechanical ventilation refers to a rescue and treatment means to improve ventilation and oxygenation through the establishment of artificial airway. Condensate accumulation is an important source of infection leading to ventilators associated pneumonia ...
TIAN Suai (田素爱) +2 more
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Ventilators for Nonintensivists. Basic Ventilator Parameters
As COVID-19 has rapidly evolved into a pandemic, many physicians without prior critical care training are being called upon to help manage SARS-CoV-2 infected patients who develop respiratory failu...
Burton W. Lee, Megan Acho, Alyson C. Lee
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In the previous issue of Critical Care, Rose and colleagues report the results of a survey on the frequency with which ICU nurses are involved in decision-making in ventilator management. About 63 to 88% of the decisions were made by nurses in collaboration with physicians, and as much as 68% of ventilator adjustments were performed by nurses ...
Amal Jubran, Amal Jubran
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ExoventQ: A Novel Low-Cost Portable Negative Pressure Ventilator Design and Implementation
The emergence of COVID-19 resulted in significant shortages of mechanical ventilators globally. This prompted investigations into developing new, cost-effective methods for producing ventilators.
Shahd Sameer Mohammed Gaben +7 more
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Disability, Deadly Discourse, and Collectivity amid Coronavirus (COVID-19)
As COVID-19 crosses the globe, disabled people are subject to new medical and discursive realities. Focusing on the consequences of the latter, we utilize news reports from Canada and the UK to argue the current language of pre-existing conditions ...
Thomas Abrams, David Abbott
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General Public Preferences for Allocating Scarce Medical Resources During COVID-19
COVID-19 has overwhelmed healthcare systems across the globe with an unprecedented surge in the demand for hospitalizations. Consequently, many hospitals are facing precarious conditions due to limited capacity, especially in the provision of ventilators.
Samir Huseynov +2 more
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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 +11 more
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is of huge importance, resulting in over 1 million deaths each year. Here, we describe how a new drug, enmetazobactam, designed to help fight resistant bacterial diseases, inhibits a key enzyme (GES‐1) responsible for AMR. Our data show it is a more potent inhibitor than the related tazobactam, with high‐level computation
Michael Beer +10 more
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