Questions tagged [mechanical-ventilation]
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How are decisions on sharing of ventilators made and how can risks of doing so be mitigated?
My wife is a respiratory therapist working in an academic medical center in the USA. She works daily with Covid 19 patients performing roles such ventilator management or assisting with intubation.
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Are life support machines always redundant and autonomous?
I was looking at some extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) images such as the one below and then I realized that only the two most-right parallel examples in this image (parallel VV, parallel VA)...
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Is my study design a case-control study?
I have to design a hypothetical study in critical care medicine. The aim of the study is to examine wether the outcome of patients (survivor vs. non-survivor) is associated with certain ventilator ...
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Why aren't lung machines / ECMO widely used for COVID-19?
I am not a doctor but I have read quite a bit on how COVID-19 affects the body. The ability of a critically afflicted patient to efficiently exchange oxygen drops off a cliff as the lungs fill with a ...
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Updates on mortality rate once on a ventilator with Covid-19?
CNN even in fairly recent articles keeps pointing to this (March 5) Lancet page (which is an editorial summarizing an even older study published on Feb 21) for mortality rates of Covid-19 on a ...
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What is the difference between a high flow device, like a HFNC, and a CPAP machine? And how can HFNC involve PEEP?
Let's say with CPAP you have the air infused with Oxygen. I don't know if that's always the case but suppose that's the case.
What then is the difference between a high flow device, like a HFNC, and ...
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When somebody has ARDS, when is non-mechanical ventilation used, vs mechanical ventilation? (I'm talking no intubation, no sedation)
I'm a lay person.
When somebody has ARDS, when is non-mechanical ventilation used, vs mechanical ventilation?
(I'm talking no intubation, no sedation)
From what I understand, mechanical ...
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Could liquid ventilation offer more effective treatment for pneumonia?
Thinking about pneumonia as the cause of death for COVID-19 victims, it seems natural to wonder - why not fight fluid with fluid?
Breathing in oxygen through liquid is possible. Although it seems ...
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When can mechanical ventilation be performed without intubation?
(lay person here)
I have been following recent developments in DIY ventilator design, which are normally focussed on a contraption to send positive pressure in a controlled cycle. The counterargument ...
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Are there standards such as ISO or from FDA for Ambu-bag (bag valve mask) size, dimenstions and design?
Are there standards such as ISO or from FDA for Ambu-bag (bag valve mask) size, dimenstions and design?
We are designing an ambu-bag based ventilator, however, if the ambu-bags purchased at different ...
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Can neuromuscular electrical stimulation be used as a low-cost alternative to mechanical breathing
It is speculated that because of COVID-19 pandemic there may be shortage of intensive care equipment (mechanical breathers) causing deaths.
Though IDK what is so costly in these mechanical breathers ...
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How many ECMO machines does China have?
Is there any data on how many ECMO machines in China? I know that there are about 260 machines in the united states but I have found no data about China on such matter. I want to compare the ...
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Ways of dealing with pneumonia
I have a question about ways of dealing with pneumonia. As far as I understand, the danger of pneumonia comes primarily from the buildup of fluid in the lungs causing asphyxiation.
Whenever I have a ...
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Would "working out" with a respiratory muscle training device improve survivability of ARDS in patients without access to a ventilator?
"Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome" (ARDS) is characterized by a rapid onset of widespread inflammation of the lungs. The causes are many, and one such cause might become prominent in the near ...
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Do patients with VAE stay in ICU for longer time?
I was reading online that people when put in ICU under mechanical ventilation, can develop Ventilated Associated Events.
What I would like to know is: does the stay in ICU increase for people who ...
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Intubation with bag-mask ventilation after pneumothorax or tension pneumothorax
Why can intubation with vigorous bag-mask ventilation rapidly lead to a further deterioration of an unconscious patient?
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Warning Symbol on Nippy Junior+
One of our clients has recently been put onto a nippy junior plus positive pressure ventilator. Just to the left of the left of the settings lock symbol is the symbol shown below. I would like to know ...
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Which ideal body weight formula is used when choosing the ventilator's tidal volume?
When a patient is under mechanical ventilation, the ventilator's tidal volume is chosen based on the patient's ideal body weight.
However, there exist several ideal body weight formulas. Do ...
