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.
Device: Emergency Ventilator Splitter
Device to enable oxygen delivery to two patients independently from a single ventilator.
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
Stanford University
Stanford, California, United States
Joseph Woo, MD, Principal Investigator
Stanford University