title: Portable power supply for continuous mechanical ventilation during intrahospital transport of critically ill patients with ARDS.
abstract: Patients with respiratory failure and poor pulmonary compliance requiring high levels of positive pressure ventilation are at high risk during intrahospital transportation. Most ICU ventilators currently do not have a built-in power supply. Manual bag-valve ventilation frequently is used but often without optimum mean airway pressures or minute ventilation guarantees. Transport ventilators also are limited in their ability to provide high positive end-expiratory pressure, variable inspiratory-expiratory ratios, or pressure-controlled ventilation. The 3M SARNS HELP (Hospital Emergency Limited Power) 115, a portable battery, provides continuous power to ICU ventilators and eliminates ventilator circuit interruption for the critical period of patient transportation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599-7010, USA.
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Barton
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Tuttle-Newhall
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Szalados
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000628:therapy*; D014187:Transportation of Patients; D012122:Ventilators, Mechanical