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Emergency Ventilator Splitting Between Two or More Patients (COVID-19)
Not Recruiting
Trial ID: NCT04381013
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to develop a safe, easily scalable, and simple method to split a single ventilator for use amongst two or more patients, thus serving as a capacity bridge to save patient lives until manufacturers can produce enough ventilators.
Official Title
Emergency Ventilator Splitting Between Two or More Patients Using a Single Ventilator to Address Critical Ventilator Shortages During a Pandemic
Stanford Investigator(s)
Joseph Woo, MD, FACS, FACC, FAHA
Norman E. Shumway Professor, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
* Phase I
* Undergoing routine thoracic surgery which will include the use of a dual lumen endotracheal tube at Stanford.
* Phase II
* Able to give consent
* On venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for reason other than COVID-19
* Phase III
* Able to give consent
* Infected with COVID-19 and will likely require mechanical ventilation.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Phase I
* Significant cardiac comorbidities
* Liver disease
* Phase II
* Significant cardiac comorbidities
* Pre or Post-transplant patient
* Infection with COVID-19
* Phase III
* Co-infection with disease aside from COVID-19
* Severely ill requiring high ventilator requirements and not stable for ventilator splitting
Intervention(s):
device: Emergency Ventilator Splitter
Not Recruiting
Contact Information
Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford,
CA
94305