Background The oxygen reserve index (ORi) is a real-time, continuous index measured with
multi-wavelength pulse CO-oximetry technology. It estimates mild hyperoxemia in humans …

Influenza like pandemics are a severe threat to any established health care system as many
thousands of patients would need emergency ventilator support during the acute respiratory …

Sedation and general anesthesia produce profound changes in respiratory function, with the
degree of change depending on drugs employed, species involved, depth of anesthesia …

This paper presents an Expert System for prediction of Anesthesia machines performance
and inspection requirements. It consists of Artificial Neural Network and Fuzzy classifier. The …

Mechanical ventilation (MV) has played a crucial role in the medical field, particularly in
anesthesia and in critical care medicine (CCM) settings. MV has evolved significantly since …

OBJECTIVE To determine the accuracy of tidal volume (VT) delivery among 5 different
models of large-animal ventilators when tested at various settings for VT delivery, peak …

BACKGROUND: Mechanical ventilation of the neonate requires ventilators than can deliver
precise and accurate tidal volume (VT) and PEEP to avoid lung injury. Due to small neonatal …

The deluge of patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 had depleted
the oxygen reservoirs of most hospitals in the country unprecedentedly. Oxygen is an …

Background Fresh gas decoupling is a feature of the modern anesthesia workstation, where
the fresh gas flow (FGF) is diverted into the reservoir bag and is not added to the delivered …

Introducción: el mantenimiento de la oxigenación es comúnmente un problema durante la
colecistectomía laparoscópica. No existen guías específicas sobre el modo ventilatorio de …