Intensive Care Services Unit With Ventilator

A high-tech unit where patients receive constant, specialized care from a team of experts including physicians, professionally registered nurses, cardiopulmonary therapists, lab technicians, physical therapists, and radiology technicians.

It is dedicated to providing comprehensive, continuous care for patients who are critically ill or medically unstable. Often these patients are recovering from cardiac arrest, extensive surgeries, or cardiac procedures. They may require mechanical ventilation or other specialized care.

Our Intensive care ventilators are used to provide ventilatory support for patients who cannot breathe on their own or who require assistance to maintain adequate ventilation. Patients ventilated by these devices can range in age from neonates to adults and can vary in condition from very critical, unstable patients to relatively stable postoperative patients. While intensive care ventilators are typically used in critical care areas of the hospital, they may be used in other care areas as well. In this study, we evaluated seven ventilators specified for intensive care applications. Four of the evaluated models offer the full variety of features needed to make a unit appropriate for a broad range of intensive care applications–for example, they offer both volume- and pressure-controlled modes of ventilation. We labeled these models comprehensive-capability units. The remaining three units lacked certain features, such as a pressure-controlled mode of ventilation, that limited their suitability for some applications.