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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, M. Martins, Fabiana Lopes Pereira Santana, M. Furtado, F. C. B. R. Miname, R. Pimentel, Ágata Nunes Brito, Patrick D Schneider, E. dos Santos, Luciane Hupalo da Silva   +9 more
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Frugal Innovation: Enabling Mechanical Ventilation During Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic in Resource-Limited Settings

Critical Care Explorations, 2021
ICUs worldwide are facing resource shortages including increased need for provision of invasive mechanical ventilation during the current coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Chintan Dave, MD, Paul Cameron, MD, John Basmaji, MD, Gordon Campbell, PhD, Edward Buga, MD, Marat Slessarev, MD, PhD   +5 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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Dispersal and life-history traits in a spider with rapid range expansion [PDF]

, 2020
Background Dispersal and reproduction are key life-history traits that jointly determine species' potential to expand their distribution, for instance in light of ongoing climate change.
Bonte, Dries, Klockmann, Michael, Pekár, Stano, Schmitz, Torben, Uhl, Gabriele, Wolz, Marina   +5 more
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The US Strategic National Stockpile Ventilators in Coronavirus Disease 2019

Chest, 2020
Background Early in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there was serious concern that the United States would encounter a shortfall of mechanical ventilators.
Rich Branson, J. Dichter, Henry J. Feldman, A. Devereaux, David J. Dries, J. Benditt, Tanzib Hossain, M. Ghazipura, Mary A. King, M. Baldisseri, Michael D. Christian, Guillermo Domingiuez-Cherit, Kiersten N. Henry, Anne Marie O. Martland, Meredith Huffines, Doug Ornoff, Jason Persoff, D. Rodríquez, Ryan C. Maves, N. Kissoon, Lewis Rubinson   +20 more
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Living with helicopter noise : evaluating sound insulation techniques for domestic dwellings using real helicopters [PDF]

, 2011
Specific remedial works designed to improve sound installation and reduce the noise level produced by helicopters inside dwellings are described. The theoretical problems and practical solutions to installing high performance acoustic insulation to a ...
Kerry, G, Lomax1, C, Waddington, DC
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Effect of Positive End-Expiratory Pressure on Central Venous Pressure in Patients under Mechanical Ventilation

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2018
Introduction: Finding the probable governing pattern of PEEP and CVP changes is an area of interest for in-charge physicians and researchers. Therefore, the present study was designed with the aim of evaluating the relationship between the mentioned ...
Majid Shojaee, Anita Sabzghabaei, Hossein Alimohammadi, Hojjat Derakhshanfar, Afshin Amini, Bahareh Esmailzadeh   +5 more
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Analysis of Medical Resource Utilization and Outcome of Inhaled Nitric Oxide in Patients Undergoing Mechanical Ventilation

International Journal of Gerontology, 2015
Background: Inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) is a potent selective pulmonary vasodilator, which is used in critically ill patients to improve oxygenation. It avoids systemic hypotension and ventilator-induced lung injury in patients using ventilators.
Yueh-Chih Chung, Shian-Chin Ko, Chin-Li Lu, Mei-Chen Huang, Kuo-Chen Cheng   +4 more
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Anaesthesia ventilators

Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, 2013
Anaesthesia ventilators are an integral part of all modern anaesthesia workstations. Automatic ventilators in the operating rooms, which were very simple with few modes of ventilation when introduced, have become very sophisticated with many advanced ...
Rajnish K Jain, Srinivasan Swaminathan
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Should Extremely Premature Babies Get Ventilators During the COVID-19 Crisis?

American Journal of Bioethics, 2020
In a crisis, societal needs take precedence over a patient’s best interests. Triage guidelines, however, differ on whether limited resources should focus on maximizing lives or life-years.
M. Haward, A. Janvier, G. Moore, N. Laventhal, Jessica T. Fry, J. Lantos   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source