BackgroundIn Japan, public dialogue on allocation of life-saving medical resources remains taboo, and discussion largely has been avoided.Research QuestionDo Japanese health care workers the general agree with principles ventilator developed internationally?Study Design MethodsA four-point Likert scale questionnaire was used to assess extent agreement or disagreement internationally triage for ...

The aim of this article is to identify and interpret the data provided by modern ventilators that provide the greatest clinical help in evaluating respiratory mechanics during mechanical ventilation. In intensive care, respiratory mechanics can be assessed in dynamic conditions (no flow-interruption) or static conditions (occlusion techniques) to record compliance and resistance and to monitor ...

Transporting critically ill patients has become a common occurrence in the work life of most respiratory therapists. Roentgenograms, the mainstay of diagnostic tools, have been joined by other diagnostic tests and interventions that seemed exotic a couple of decades ago. As with any form of technology, the extraordinary becomes the routine, the routine becomes the expected, and the expected bec...

Surges of COVID-19 infections could lead to insufficient supply mechanical ventilators, and rationing needed care. Multiplexing ventilators (co-MV) serve multiple patients is a potential temporary solution. However, if are ventilated in parallel ventilation, there currently no means match ventilation requirements or patients, with guidelines date for co-MV. This research uses patient-specific c...

Intermittent positive pressure breathing machines are in use for the treatment of many respiratory and cardiac conditions, but there is no agreement regarding the risk of cross infection and the necessity of sterilizing part, or all, of this equipment. Until recently, complete sterilization has been difficult to effect, and so reliance has been placed on boiling or chemical disinfection of the ...

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