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Published on: March 12, 2018
Simultaneous mechanical ventilation of several patients with a single ventilator
Jorge Alberto Castañón-González1, Sergio Camacho-Juárez1, Luis Antonio Gorordo-Delsol1
1Secretaría de Salud, Hospital Juárez de México, Intensive Care and Critical Medicine Unit, Mexico City, Mexico.
Introduction:
Simultaneous mechanical ventilation of several patients with a single ventilator might reduce the deficit of these devices for the care of patients with acute respiratory failure due to Covid-19.
Objective:
To communicate the results of a mechanical ventilation exercise with a ventilator in a lung simulator, and simultaneously in two and four.
Results:
No statistically significant differences were observed between programmed, recorded and measured positive end-expiratory pressure, mean airway pressure and peak pressure, except when simultaneously ventilating four lung simulators.
Conclusions:
Simultaneous mechanical ventilation should be implemented by medical personnel with experience in the procedure, be restricted to two patients and carried out in the intensive care unit.
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