Official Title
Emergency Ventilator Splitting Between Two or More Patients Using a Single Ventilator to Address Critical Ventilator Shortages During a Pandemic
Brief Summary

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.

Withdrawn
COVID-19

Device: Emergency Ventilator Splitter

Device to enable oxygen delivery to two patients independently from a single ventilator.

Eligibility Criteria

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

Eligibility Gender
All
Eligibility Age
Minimum: 18 Years ~ Maximum: N/A
Countries
United States
Locations

Stanford University
Stanford, California, United States

Joseph Woo, MD, Principal Investigator
Stanford University

Stanford University
NCT Number
MeSH Terms
COVID-19
Emergencies