As the COVID-19 pandemic impacts those around the world, the respiratory community is banding together to share knowledge and bravely battle this unfamiliar virus.

Browse the resources we used to inform our COVID-19 scenario simulations as well as basic training tools and videos meant to help clinicians understand the proper use of most major ventilators.

Resources Used for COVID-19 Scenarios

• Mechanical Ventilation during Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
• Interview with Forensic Expert: First COVID-19 Autopsy Provides Critical Insight
• EMCrit Project Online Medical Education on Emergency Department (ED) Critical Care, Trauma, and Resuscitation
• Care for Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19
• UPMC COVID-19 Standard Operating Procedures (3.9.2020)
• Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment (Zhejiang University School of Medicine)
• Corona Virus Clincial Collaboration
• Late-Breaking Coronavirus Presentations
• Diagnosis and Treatment Protocol of COVID-19 (Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital)
• UW Medicine COVID-19 Resource Site

Ventilator Training Resources

• NIH-NHLBI ARDS Network Tools
• Strategic National Stockpile Ventilator Training Program (AARC)
• Ventilator Training Alliance Mobile App

Draeger

Files

• Patient Safety Checklist
• Adult Risk Assessment Checklist

Videos

• Savina 300 Select – How to Use
• APRV – Do Everything Necessary to Prevent ARDS
• Drager Ventilator 1

Webinars

• Continuing Respiratory Care Education (CRCE) Courses

GE

Videos

• Visualizing Lung Compliance with CARESCAPE R860
• Optimal PEEP Settings with CARESCAPE R860
• CARESCAPE R860 – Dead Space Ventilation

Hamilton

Elearning

• Videos
• Hamilton Medical College

Philips

• How to Use the Respironics V60 as an Invasive Vent
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch

Medtronic

Videos

• Puritan Bennett™ 840 Ventilator
• Newport™ E360 Ventilator

Tools

• PMUS Calculator
• PAV+ Driving Pressure Calculator
• What is Asynchrony
• Types of Asynchrony
• Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
• Ventilator Weaning Management

Vyaire

Bellavista

1. Bellavista – Overview
2. Getting Started with Bellavista
3. Bellavista – Checkout Procedure
4. Bellavista – Adaptive Ventilation Mode
5. Bellavista – Lung recruitment
6. Bellavista – Alarming
7. Bellavista – Auto.rise

Avea

1. Start with Avea Ventilator
2. Care Fusion- AVEA

Other

• ICU and Ventilator Mortality Among Critically Ill Adults With Coronavirus Disease 2019
• UChicago Medicine doctors see ‘remarkable’ success using ventilator alternatives to treat COVID-19
• COVID-19 Ventilator Course: Learn or Review Mechanical Ventilation
• Basic Vent Instruction Sheet
• Joint Statement on Multiple Patients Per Ventilator
• Use of a Single Ventilator to Support 4 Patients: Laboratory Evaluation of a Limited Concept
• Protecting healthcare workers from SARS-CoV-2 infection: practical indications
• Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Critical care and airway management issues
• Management of respiratory failure due to covid-19
• Management of COVID-19 Respiratory Distress

How IngMar Has Helped

• Medical Team Revives Decades-Old Ventilator Model Amid Scramble to Get Canada Ready for COVID-19 Peak
• Tesla Shows Off Prototype Ventilator For COVID-19 Patients Made Out Of Electric Car Parts
• MakAir V1 Open Source Project
• Hospital teams coached in life-saving ‘swimmer’s pose’
• Business Booms For Some Manufacturers, Dwindles For Others Amid Pandemic
• Texas-based team seeks EUA for 3D printed emergency ventilator
• Design and performance testing of a novel emergency ventilator for in-hospital use
• Evo Design has been awarded one of 8 licenses to produce the NASA-JPL VITAL Covid-19 Ventilator