Personalized Ventilation to Multiple Patients Using a Single Ventilator: Description and Proof of Concept

To design and test a ventilator circuit that can be used for ventilation of two or more patients with a single ventilator, while allowing individualization of tidal volume, fractional concentration of oxygen, and positive end-expiratory pressure to each patient, irrespective of the other patient's respiratory system mechanics.Description and proof of concept studies.Respiratory therapy laboratory.Ventilation of mechanical test lungs.Following a...