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| Are there any new medicines or procedures for patients unable to wean off ventilators ? |
I assume you are talking about a medical ventilator that is keeping someone alive. I don't believe there have been any new advances in medicine or procedures. Unfortunately, some patients ne... |
| I am looking for a very easy to follow book about respiratory ventilators; any suggestions? |
Are you in Respiratory Therapy school? A good one that covers everything you need to know, provided you are in a resp therapy program, is called Eagan's. It's pretty thick, but it'... |
| Calculating I:E ratios with Pts on mechanical ventilators? |
I:E ratio is just the amount of time in a whole respiratory cycle spent in inspiration vs expiration. So if you've got a respiratory rate of 20 (3 seconds total cycle time) and your I:E ratio... |
| Can you consider dead, person with respiratory ventilators after declaring they are brain dead? |
The exact definition of "death" varies depending on state law. Typically, if doctors can prove there is no brain activity, they can pronounce a person "dead" even though the pe... |
| What is the purpose of ventilators in house when we have windows? |
To circulate air and prevent moisture buildup.
New homes have become too efficient at saving energy. They tend to trap everything into the living space to save the cost of heating or cooling it.... |
| Why peep is used in ventilators? |
PEEP=peak end-expiratory pressure. It is one of the ways in which mechanical ventilator is set.
It refers to the pressure which when reached after expiration (exhalation), should the ventilator pr... |
| Can people be on ventilators for weeks and recover? What are the chances? |
No, I think the maximum is about 7 to 10 days. My friend was on one for 10 days 4 years ago. It is a tube inserted through the mouth, down into the airway. It requires much medication to keep th... |
| What are the unique features of these ventilators? Servo i, Draeger Evita XL, Puritan Bennett 840.? |
The Evita and 840 can both be used on neonates, peds and adults. Both machines software can be updated meaning it never becomes obsolete. The touch screens on both are nice and both have an ex... |
| Medical ventilators? |
Check the article down below, it has everything you need.
I hope this helps ... |
| When a person is taken off a ventilator, what happens next? |
I've seem people live a long time off the ventilator. Normally the person quits breathing when it is turned off but you never now for sure. .... ... |
| Help-portable ventilator needed? |
I recommend that you talk to her doctor to get a ventilator from a home care company. You would then get whatever kind of ventilator they use or her doctor specifies. I think that an LTV 1200 (or a... |
| Aunt on Ventilator for almost 4 mo will she be able to breath? |
this is something that you as a family (with help from her doctor) must decide.
It sounds to me like she's on the vent due to the surgery...which doesn't necessarily mean she'll n... |
| What is ventilator support for a patient? what machanical quipments are used for it? |
from Wikipedia:
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| Ventilator circuits with hme filters? |
Hai Purely,
Most of the manufacturers claim that the HME filters can stay up to 48 hours on the vent circuites. However, your clinical judgement plays an important role in this matter. If you see ... |
| Ventilator......plzzzzzz plzzzzzzz help.......? |
A ventilator is a machine used to help a person who is unable to breathe normally. This does sound like bad news but it is not necessarily a final step to saving a patient.
It could be that your a... |
| Baby on ventilator developed condition called bronchial malasia/bronchomalacia what is this condition and why? |
Your airways (like your trachea and the big main bronchii) have little rings of cartilage that hold them open. Sometimes those rings are too soft to hold the airway open and the airway (in your ba... |
| Taking a patient off ventilator support.? |
She will be able to come off the vent only when she is well enough to breathe on her own. The respiratory therapists test her by changing the vent settings to see if her body will take over the br... |
| I would like to understand the readings on the Nellcor Puritan Bennett 760 ventilator & where to locate info.? |
I AM NOT A DOCTOR AND SUGGEST ANYTHING REGARDING THIS YOU CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN, here is a link about the product and Customer Service Phone Number is 1-800-635-5267:
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| What is Ventilator-Dependent Respiratory Failure? |
It depends on how it is used.
Basically the doctor is saying one of two things
1) The patient has experience the loss of spontaneous respirations during mechanical ventilation, which means the... |
| How long can a person stay on a ventilator after heart bypass surgery? |
I'm very sorry to hear about your father. Whether or not he comes off the ventilator really depends on what else is going on with him. Is he stable otherwise? Are they keeping him sedated?... |
| Can auto-PEEP be detected on a ventilator pressure-time waveform? |
Sure can. If you observe the pressure-time waveform the pressure will not return to base-line prior to the next inhalation. Typically we use a "flow-time" waveform to detect auto-peep, bu... |
| Has anyone ever been on a ventilator? |
First off sorry to hear about your health problems. Weaning a COPD patient from a ventilator is extremely difficult. What happens/has happened is your body has adapted to living with a higher lev... |
| Ventilator certification in the Milwaukee, WI area? |
Aurora Health care offers classes, you can sign up on-line
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| Doctors want to switch off his ventilator!? |
This is a sad situation. I am sorry to hear about this. If the doctors are saying that there is not much that can be done, they are probably right. They are the best ones to answer the question o... |
| Ventilator Pnuemonia? |
This is called VAP(ventilator acquired pneumonia). It is treated with antibiotics, tracheal/endotracheal and oral suctioning at least every four hours, nebulized bronchodilatory treatments with CPT... |
| How can someone be considered brain dead and has been taken off the ventilator still breath on their own? |
I'm sorry, there is very little, if any, hope of recovery when a person is declared brain dead their higher level brain functions are completely absent. That means no thinking, no talking, no ... |
| My uncle is critical..should we put him ventilator? need info urgently..Help!? |
You have to think about what your uncle's wishes are. If he's in advanced lung cancer, putting him on a vent is not going to make his problems go away. the other issue with putting him on... |
| D patient was intubated and was placed on a mechanical ventilator FiO2 100% when is best time to extract ABG? |
20 minutes from the last interventions or changes that have taken place related to any respiratory therapy. It includes chest physio, nebulisers, suctioning, changing from one mode to other mode of... |
| How is the ventilator mode adaptive support ventilation or ASV beneficial in the operating room setting? |
Well, in the 15000 cases I've done or taken part in, we hand bag the patients until we get to the ICU, or they're extubated in the PACU.
ASV has been discussed/used in all of our surgi... |
| Anybody use a ventilator out there?? |
Please don't make multiple postings of the same question. ... |
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