Modification of a domiciliary ventilator to increase FiO
non invasive ventilation
Journal
Thorax
ISSN: 1468-3296
Titre abrégé: Thorax
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0417353
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 2021
01 2021
Historique:
received:
08
06
2020
revised:
07
08
2020
accepted:
23
08
2020
pubmed:
21
10
2020
medline:
30
12
2020
entrez:
20
10
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Although nasal continuous positive airway pressure or non-invasive ventilation is used to manage some patients with acute lung injury due to COVID-19, such patients also demonstrate increased minute ventilation which makes it hard, if the device is used in line with the manufacturer's instructions, to achieve adequate oxygen delivery. In addition, if a hospital contains many such patients, then it is possible that the oxygen requirements will exceed infrastructure capacity. Here we describe a simple modification of two exemplar ventilators normally used for domiciliary ventilation, which substantially increased the fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO
Identifiants
pubmed: 33077616
pii: thoraxjnl-2020-215487
doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215487
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
83-85Informations de copyright
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing interests: MIP serves as a paid consultant for Philips and JFD.