Talk:Medical ventilator

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The initial statement refers to ventilators as moving "non-medical gas." Oxygen IS a medical gas. Yes, I KNOW they are refering to anesthesia, but oxygen is oxygen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.229.10.49 (talk) 04:45, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Ventilators, historical

The inflation pressure can be varied by sliding the moveable weight on top of the bellows, it can be seen in the photograph. And where is the photograph? Seems to me like some badly copy & paste. --81.21.45.44 16:23, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Actually, if you look at the history/diffs, you can see he tried to link to a photograph, it apparently just wasn't uploaded. That said, the section does need some cleanup. VoxLuna 10:17, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

"The ambulance ventilation equipment shown in the top picture is not ventilation equipment at all. It is a suction unit and an IV bag warmer. I would know I am both a paramedic and a respiratory therapist.

I'm an EMT-IV and Paramedic student. That's IV flud warming equipment and a mounted suction.

- Chance Gearheart

Changed photo to mechanical ventilator Hallbrianh 20:07, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] mechanical ventilator

The person in the picture labeled "An ER patient on a ventilator" on this page appears to be wearing a face mask; she is not on a ventilator. Chrisalta 07:08, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

You are correct, and User:Rcej rightly commented out the picture as seen in this diff. There's nothing wrong with using the image on other pages though, such as oxygen therapy (as an alternative to nasal cannula). --Kyoko 00:51, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HFPV

I have had a fair amount of experience with HFPV. Prior to my edit, there was no information about it. Some may think that it is worthy of a separate article, but I have no such lofty goals for now.VK35 20:29, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Expansion request

A lot of people only think about ventilators when they're trying to write a living will. The history is lovely, but can we get some simple information that would be useful to a basically healthy person who's trying to figure out if they'd ever want a machine to make them breathe? WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:19, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Add a redirect

Positive-pressure_airway_ventilator, please add this as a redirect.
~ender 2008-05-29 18:09:PM MST