• Gac Med Mex · May 2020

    Simultaneous mechanical ventilation of several patients with a single ventilator.

    • Jorge Alberto Castañón-González, Sergio Camacho-Juárez, Luis Antonio Gorordo-Delsol, Jessica Garduño-López, Orlando Pérez-Nieto, Marcos Antonio Amezcua-Gutiérrez, and Germán Fernández-de Alba Vejar.
    • Secretaría de Salud, Hospital Juárez de México, Intensive Care and Critical Medicine Unit, Mexico City, Mexico.
    • Gac Med Mex. 2020 May 14; 156 (4).

    IntroductionSimultaneous mechanical ventilation of several patients with a single ventilator might reduce the deficit of these devices for the care of patients with acute respiratory failure due to Covid-19.ObjectiveTo communicate the results of a mechanical ventilation exercise with a ventilator in a lung simulator, and simultaneously in two and four.ResultsNo statistically significant differences were observed between programmed, recorded and measured positive end-expiratory pressure, mean airway pressure and peak pressure, except when simultaneously ventilating four lung simulators.ConclusionsSimultaneous mechanical ventilation should be implemented by medical personnel with experience in the procedure, be restricted to two patients and carried out in the intensive care unit.

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