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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