Portable/transport ventilators: our latest look at what's on the market.
This article presents ECRI's purchasing guidance for 11 currently marketed portable/transport ventilators from six suppliers. We highlight-and update-some of our key findings for three models that we had previously evaluated, and we compare these products with eight additional models that are now available, but that have not been subjected to ECRI's full evaluation protocol. Specifically, we compare ventilator features and specifications and describe which models are the most appropriate to consider for (1) home-care/long-term-care settings and (2) in-hospital transport.
D004867:Equipment Design; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D011682:Purchasing, Hospital; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D014187:Transportation of Patients; D012122:Ventilators, Mechanical / Q000592:standards*