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Monitoring of noninvasive ventilation by built-in software of home bilevel ventilators: a bench study
Authors
Contal, Olivier
Vignaux, Laurence
Combescure, Christophe
Pepin, Jean-Louis
Jolliet, Philippe
Janssens, Jean-Paul
Published in Chest. 2012, vol. 141, no. 2, p. 469-76
Abstract Current bilevel positive-pressure ventilators for home noninvasive ventilation (NIV) provide physicians with software that records items important for patient monitoring, such as compliance, tidal volume (Vt), and leaks. However, to our knowledge, the validity of this information has not yet been independently assessed.
Keywords Equipment Design — Equipment Failure Analysis — Home Care Services — Humans — Monitoring, Physiologic/instrumentation — Positive-Pressure Respiration/instrumentation — Reproducibility of Results — Software — Ventilators, Mechanical
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PMID: 21778253
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine interne des spécialités
Research group Epidémiologie clinique (115)
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(ISO format) 		CONTAL, Olivier et al. Monitoring of noninvasive ventilation by built-in software of home bilevel ventilators: a bench study. In: Chest, 2012, vol. 141, n° 2, p. 469-76. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:31493

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