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
Draeger
Files
Videos
Webinars
GE
Videos
- Visualizing Lung Compliance with CARESCAPE R860
- Optimal PEEP Settings with CARESCAPE R860
- CARESCAPE R860 – Dead Space Ventilation
Hamilton
Elearning
Philips
- How to Use the Respironics V60 as an Invasive Vent
Medtronic
Videos
Tools
- PMUS Calculator
- PAV+ Driving Pressure Calculator
- What is Asynchrony
- Types of Asynchrony
- Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
- Ventilator Weaning Management
Vyaire
Bellavista
- Bellavista – Overview
- Getting Started with Bellavista
- Bellavista – Checkout Procedure
- Bellavista – Adaptive Ventilation Mode
- Bellavista – Lung recruitment
- Bellavista – Alarming
- Bellavista – Auto.rise
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
- 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