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This bench study utilized standard hospital equipment for ventilator splitting. Installing a tracheal tube and Hoffman clamp to the existing ventilator can achieve safe tidal volume and airway pressure for both test lungs with low (0.02 l.cmH2O^-1) and high (0.04 l.cmH2O^-1) compliances. However, further clinical studies are recommended before implementing the device on COVID-19 patients.

Ventilator Splitting Proposal #1 for COVID-19

Clarke AL, Stephens AF, Liao S, Byrne TJ, Gregory SD. Coping with COVID-19: ventilator splitting with differential driving pressures using standard hospital equipment. Anaesthesia. 2020;75(7):872-880. doi:10.1111/anae.15078
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