Implementation of a Comprehensive Testing Protocol for a Rapidly Manufactured Mechanical Ventilator.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted that surges in critical care demand can overwhelm existing healthcare infrastructures, most evident in the acute shortage of mechanical ventilators across the globe. Despite efforts to encourage urgent authorization of newly developed emergency ventilators, the currently available testing protocols are not internationally accepted, standardized and none address testing in clinical settings. The aim of this study was to compile and perform a comprehensive clinical testing protocol for a newly developed emergency ventilator.

Methods

Using previously available guidance, we compiled a sequential testing protocol with a: 1. preclinical, 2. safety testing, 3. clinician usability test and 4. clinical stage involving respiratory failure

SUBMITTER: Baglyas S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9212985 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul-Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature