Resp Care
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Practice Guideline Guideline
AARC (American Association for Respiratory Care) clinical practice guideline. Incentive spirometry.
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Practice Guideline Guideline
AARC (American Association for Respiratory Care) clinical practice guideline. Pulse oximetry.
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Mechanical ventilation during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) requires a specially constructed ventilator that contains no ferromagnetic components; however, the expense of acquiring such a ventilator may not be warranted if projected use is infrequent. We adapted a Laerdal manual resuscitator to allow its use during MRI, and report the simulation and monitoring procedure that we developed and the successful ventilation of three pediatric patients with the device.
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Comparative Study
Compression volume in adult ventilator circuits: a comparison of five disposable circuits and a nondisposable circuit.
Although the concept of ventilator circuit compression is well known, it is not fully appreciated clinically. We compared the compression volume of five adult disposable ventilator circuits and a nondisposable circuit. ⋯ There were differences in circuit compression factors as a function of the ventilating pressure and the brand of circuit. Although these differences are too small to be clinically important in many cases, they may be important during ventilation with low tidal volumes and high pressures.