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Ventilators designed to provide automated ventilatory support to patients during interhospital or intrahospital transport and in emergency situations. The operation and control of these ventilators are intentionally simplified; they are compact, lightweight (i.e., less than 5 kg), rugged devices. Most transport ventilators provide mandatory breaths at preset intervals (control mode), not allowing the patients to breathe spontaneously; operation in assist/control and/or synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation (SIMV) modes is available in some models. These ventilators usually include an airway pressure monitor and low- and high-pressure alarms. Transport ventilators may be used in vehicles, ambulances, and in field hospitals for medium-term ventilation.
Life Support[]
"The following definition appears in the glossary of the JCAHO 2009 Comprehensive Accreditation Manual:
Life Support Equipment: Any device used for the purpose of sustaining life and whose failure to perform its primary function, when used according to manufacturer’s instructions and clinical protocol, will lead to patient death in the absence of immediate intervention (examples include ventilators, heart-lung bypass machines).
Defibrillation is a response to life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias, ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. Defibrillation consists of delivering a therapeutic dose of electricity to the affected heart with a defibrillator. The dose of electricity restores a normal heart rhythm, allowing the heart to continue to function in the patient. Therefore, the Joint Commission considers defibrillators life support equipment.
As it is required that organizations maintain an inventory of all medical equipment or selected medical equipment categorized by physical risk associated with use (including all life support equipment), defibrillators must be included in an organization's medical equipment inventory.
Maintenance activities then must be identified for equipment on the inventory. A maintenance strategy for defibrillators could include a range of activities from a visual inspection of the single-use AED (automatic external defibrillator) to the daily testing of a defibrillator in clinical use settings based on organization policy."[1]
Manufacturers[]
Allied Healthcare Products
Models[]
AutoVent 4000 - Allied Healthcare Products
Second Source Parts[]
Second Source Service[]
References[]
- ↑ Joint Commission. "Defibrillators - Life Support or Non-life Support Equipment." 15 June 2009. http://www.jointcommission.org/mobile/standards_information/jcfaqdetails.aspx?StandardsFAQId=52&StandardsFAQChapterId=64