Timeline for Can CPAP devices connected with oxygen sources be used as ventilators?
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| Mar 21, 2020 at 18:53 | comment | added | K7AAY | This vendor of CPAPs and accessories offers a variety of full face masks cpapman.com/cpap-masks/full-face provided for reference; I have no interest in the company. | |
| Mar 21, 2020 at 9:37 | comment | added | ck1987pd | @GrahamChiu Pressure shouldn't be the problem, as most CPAP machines can give 25 cmH20, as most ventilators | |
| Mar 21, 2020 at 8:50 | comment | added | Chris Rogers | It's not down to the machine as to whether it is nasal only or full face mask. It is down to the mask and tubing set-up applied. All CPAP machines can use a full face mask. | |
| Mar 21, 2020 at 7:19 | comment | added | Graham Chiu | Ok, then no idea but I suspect the pressures are way too low. | |
| Mar 21, 2020 at 4:27 | comment | added | Carey Gregory♦ | I don't think OP was asking about protection, but rather about using CPAP devices as substitutes for unavailable ventilators. | |
| Mar 21, 2020 at 0:14 | comment | added | ck1987pd | I am sorry, but I erroneously used respirator interchangeably with ventilator. I think you answered thinking I asked CPAP as a respirator, while in reality I meant for ventilator. I later edited the question. | |
| Mar 21, 2020 at 0:00 | history | answered | Graham Chiu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |