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A modification to the Maquet Flow-i anaesthesia machinefor ICU ventilation

Robinson, A. J.; London, W.; Kotan, L.; Downing, W.

2020-04-11 intensive care and critical care medicine
10.1101/2020.04.06.20054882 medRxiv
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The authors present an easily manufactured modification of Getinge Groups Maquet Flow-i anaesthesia machine that gives it potential to be used long-term as an Intensive Care ventilator for emergency circumstances. There are some 7000 such machines in use worldwide, which could assist in increasing ICU ventilated bed capacity in a number of nations. The authors believe this modification has potential as a solution to increasing ventilator numbers for the COVID-19 pandemic, in hospitals where the Flow-i is underutilised for its designed purpose during this emergency. The technical drawing files are downloadable on the GrabCAD website and are Creative Commons (CC-BY 4.0) licensed to allow local manufacture of the modification. We welcome other Flow-i users and engineers to join us in troubleshooting this project on the associated GrabCAD discussion group during this pre-print phase of research.

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