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Converting gas‐driven ventilators from oxygen to air

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During our preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic we identified that our GE Healthcare anaesthetic machines (GE Healthcare, Amersham Place, Little Chalfont, UK) had a ventilator which was gas-driven, using oxygen.… Click to show full abstract

During our preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic we identified that our GE Healthcare anaesthetic machines (GE Healthcare, Amersham Place, Little Chalfont, UK) had a ventilator which was gas-driven, using oxygen. This resulted in a large amount of wasted oxygen. Our anaesthetic department has 52 anaesthetic machines which form part of our plan to increase our ITU capacity.

Keywords: driven ventilators; converting gas; ventilators oxygen; gas; oxygen air; gas driven

Journal Title: Anaesthesia
Year Published: 2020

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