Open AccessPitfalls in Ventilation Devices
Author(s) -
Parisa Sezari,
Masoud Nashibi,
Fatemeh Safari,
Ali Dabbagh,
Kamran Mottaghi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
turkish journal of anaesthesiology and reanimation
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2667-677X
pISSN - 2667-6370
DOI - 10.5152/tjar.2020.24478
Subject(s) - ventilation (architecture) , hypoxemia , medicine , intensive care medicine , airway , anesthesia , engineering , mechanical engineering
Adequate ventilation is the greatest concern of all the anaesthesiologists. Any disturbance in the ventilation process could result in serious hazards: hypoxemia or barotrauma. Deficient devices are one of many causes of such derangements. Some of the typical complications of airway/ventilation tools are described extensively in textbooks, but many other uncommon events can still occur. We described two interesting cases of device-related ventilation inadequacy, hoping that acquaintance with such jeopardizes would be helpful in emergency situations for other colleagues.