Converting gas‐driven ventilators from oxygen to air

Alberta obtains standby ventilators from federal stockpile.

Converting from ECCE to SICS

Introduction Cataract continues to be the cause of almost half the cases of blindness worldwide and the challenge to meet the needs and develop the required resources is as great as ever. Cataract surgery has evolved from couching, first practised several thousand years ago, through intraand extracapsular extraction (ECCE), to phacoemulsification. However, whatever the technique, the most impor...

Temperature of gas delivered from ventilators

BACKGROUND Although heated humidifiers (HHs) are the most efficient humidifying device for mechanical ventilation, some HHs do not provide sufficient humidification when the inlet temperature to the water chamber is high. Because portable and home-care ventilators use turbines, blowers, pistons, or compressors to inhale in ambient air, they may have higher gas temperature than ventilators with ...

Correction: Temperature of gas delivered from ventilators

[This corrects the article on p. 6 in vol. 1, PMID: 25705400.].

Measurement of oxygen transfer from air into organic solvents

BACKGROUND The use of non-aqueous organic media is becoming increasingly important in many biotechnological applications in order to achieve process intensification. Such media can be used, for example, to directly extract poorly water-soluble toxic products from fermentations. Likewise many biological reactions require the supply of oxygen, most normally from air. However, reliable online meas...