Sloppy supervision, a muted alarm, and lack of training led to the suffocation death of a severely paralyzed patient at San Diego's Veterans Administration hospital last year when an alarm failed to ...
More than a hundred patients who depend on ventilators to breathe have died since 2005 in incidents involving the machines’ warning alarms, such as caregivers failing to respond to beeps warning of a ...
In volume guarantee (VG) mode, the Dräger Babylog 8000plus ventilator targets a set expired tidal volume (VT) by adjusting the PIP between the positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) and the maximum ...