Shared ventilation: how to do it if you have to
Dr Simran Kaur Matta explains how to "split" a ventilator so that you can provide shared ventilation to multiple patients if you have to.
Tag Ventilator
Selective Lung Ventilation
Selective Lung Ventilation involves the isolation of one lung from the other allowing independent ventilation. Usually performed with a double lumen tube (DLT); alternatives are the use of a univent tube or an endobronchial blocker
Setting Up a Ventilator
Setting Up a Ventilator
Ideal Helicopter Ventilator
Ideal helicopter ventilator
Auto Triggering of the Ventilator
OVERVIEW Auto-triggering of the ventilator is inappropriate triggering of ventilation when the patient is not attempting to initiate a breath a type of ventilator-patient dyssynchrony inspiratory triggers have been made more and more sensitive -> minimised extra-work CAUSES Flow distortions…
Roger Edward Wentworth Manley
Roger Edward Wentworth Manley (1930-1991) was a British inventor, anesthetist and engineer
John Blease
Biography Born 1906, Moreton, Wirral UK Butcher assistant, clock repairer, tractor mechanic and finally set up car maintenance garage with his younger brother 1985 – Honorary Member of Liverpool Society of Anaesthetists Died 1985 Medical Eponyms Alfo-Blease anaesthetic machine Blease…