Prone positioning is a conventional method to enhance oxygenation in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) patients who need mechanical ventilator . It is proven that oxygenation is significantly more beneficial in prone position compared to the supine position. Furthermore, numerous evidences have confirmed that prone positioning could prevent lung injuries caused by ventilators

Abstract: Predicting barotrauma occurrence in intensive care patients is a difficult task. Data Mining modelling can contribute significantly to the identification of patients who will suffer barotrauma. This can be achieved by grouping patient data, considering a set of variables collected from ventilators directly related with barotrauma, and identifying similarities among them. For clusterin...

We thank Professor Christine Godfrey, Centre for Health Economics at the University of York, for advice on methods; Amanda Farrin and Vicky Allgar for statistical advice; ResMed (UK) for the loan of the ventilators; and the consultants, junior doctors, nursing staff, and physiotherapists at all 14 centres for help in conducting the trial. Contributors: See bmj.com Funding: Northern and Yorkshir...

Choosing which ventilator to purchase can dramatically affect what type of care patients get, practitioners’ working environment, and the hospital’s “bottom line.” Choosing a ventilator is a complicated process, often confounded by competing stakeholders. Trying to balance the desires of the hospital management, physicians, and respiratory therapists can be tricky. Getting the right equipment f...

T he emerging technology of fluid amplifiers and control devices has provided a new approach to the design and construction of mechanical ventilators. Fluidics, as this technology has come to be known, has not yet found wide application in medicine, and the fundamentals of fluid control devices are not familiar to many in that field. These are basically simple devices that employ fluids (gases ...

BACKGROUND Expired gas (exhalome) analysis of ventilated critical ill patients can be used for drug monitoring and biomarker diagnostics. However, it remains unclear to what extent volatile organic compounds are present in gases from intensive care ventilators, gas cylinders, central hospital gas supplies, and ambient air. We therefore systematically evaluated background volatiles in inspired g...

In modern emergency and critical care, physicians tend to choose the mode of mechanical ventilation based on spontaneous breathing for the purpose of promoting discharge of pulmonary secretion and preventing atelectasis in patients with acute respiratory insufficiency. However, we often observe "differences in recovery" among patients treated using the same PSV settings beyond "differences in i...