Increasing ventilator surge capacity in disasters: Ventilation of four adult-human-sized sheep on a single ventilator with a modified circuit

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• 作者：Lorenzo Paladino ; Mark Silverberg ; Jean G. Charchaflieh ; Julie K. Eason ; Brian J. Wright ; Nicholas Palamidessi ; Bonnie Arquilla ; Richard Sinert ; Seth Manoach
• 关键词：Ventilator ; Disaster ; Surge capacity ; Ventilation ; Resuscitation ; Intensive care ; Respiration ; Artificial
• 刊名：Resuscitation
• 出版年：2008
• 期刊代码：236_03009572
• 类别：med
• 出版时间：April 2008
• 卷：77
• 期：1
• 页码：121-126
• 文件大小：470 K

摘要

Recent manmade and natural disasters have focused attention on the need to provide care to large groups of patients. Clinicians, ethicists, and public health officials have been particularly concerned about mechanical ventilator surge capacity and have suggested stockpiling ventilators, rationing, and providing manual ventilation. These possible solutions are complex and variously limited by legal, monetary, physical, and human capital restraints. We conducted a study to determine if a single mechanical ventilator can adequately ventilate four adult-human-sized sheep for 12 h.