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It equips healthcare professionals with reliable and precise measurements of lung function, thereby enabling them to make more accurate diagnoses and tailor personalized treatment plans for patients with respiratory ...
The purpose of an anesthesia machine is to deliver precise amounts of anesthetic gases or medications to patients during surgical procedures to maintain anesthesia. Throughout this process, closely monitoring key respiratory parameters, including EtCO2 (end-tidal carbon dioxide concentration) and oxygen levels, could ensure the patient's ...
A gas humidifier is an instrument for artificially warming and humidifying respiratory gas for mechanically ventilated patients. When natural respiratory humidification decreases pulmonic infections and damage to lung tissue may ...
Nafion is a polymer that can add/remove select materials, including water vapor, to a gas stream through a first order kinetic reaction (a chemical reaction). Because it’s non-porous, other molecules cannot pass through it. This unique property makes it ideal for medical applications such as removing water vapor from breath samples or adding humidity to gas samples for therapeutic ...
Abstract Rationale:Patients with severe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) require supplemental oxygen and ventilatory support. It is unclear whether some respiratory support devices may increase the dispersion of infectious bioaerosols and thereby place healthcare workers at increased risk of infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...
The results showed that the average age of the dead was 71.48 years old and the average course of disease was 10.56 days. All patients died of respiratory failure, which indicated that the lung was the main target organ of the new coronavirus.In this study, PCT (procalcitonin) levels increased in 90.5% of patients. ...
That, he says, is what everyone is breathing. And when patients and office staff move from room to room, those particles go with them. ...
Abstract Background: Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) via helmet or total facemask is an option for managing patients with respiratory infections in respiratory failure. However, the risk of nosocomial infection is unknown. Methods: We examined exhaled air dispersion during NIV using a human patient simulator reclined at ...