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cord-280233-avmisu31	Chase, J. Geoffrey	Safe doubling of ventilator capacity: a last resort proposal for last resorts	2020-05-14		.txt	text/plain	1641	105	54	In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, this commonsense approach was recently clarified in a SCCM-ASA-AARC-AACN-ASPF-CHEST consensus statement on the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) website [1] : 'We recommend that clinicians do not attempt to ventilate more than one patient with a single ventilator while any clinically proven, safe, and reliable therapy remains available (ie, in a dire, temporary emergency)' [1] . In-parallel is a critical point, as inspiration and expiration all take place at the same time, so there is thus no change to respiratory rate (RR) and tidal volume or driving pressure are adjusted for the number of patients. Instead of the same RR and higher tidal volume or driving pressure, in-series breathing doubles the RR and keeps the other ventilator settings the same. PC driving pressure and VC tidal volume would have to be the same as ventilators currently do not have the capability to enable alternating breath settings.	./cache/cord-280233-avmisu31.txt	./txt/cord-280233-avmisu31.txt