Weaning by Surgical Tracheostomy and Portable Ventilators Released ICU Ventilators During Coronavirus Disease 2019 Surge in London

Suveer Singh; Matthew Hind; Simon Jordan; Patrick Ward; Deborah Field; Michael Polkey; Jonathan Collier

doi:10.1097/CCE.0000000000000193

Weaning by Surgical Tracheostomy and Portable Ventilators Released ICU Ventilators During Coronavirus Disease 2019 Surge in London

Crit Care Explor. 2020 Aug 19;2(8):e0193. doi: 10.1097/CCE.0000000000000193. eCollection 2020 Aug.

Authors

Suveer Singh¹, Matthew Hind², Simon Jordan³, Patrick Ward⁴, Deborah Field², Michael Polkey², Jonathan Collier⁵

Affiliations

¹ Critical Care and Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
² Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
³ Thoracic Surgery, Royal Brompton Hospital, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
⁴ Anesthesia, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
⁵ Craniomaxillofacial Surgery, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom; for the Brompton-Chelsea Covid-19 tracheostomy consortium.

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Keywords: acute respiratory distress syndrome; coronavirus disease 2019; liberation from mechanical ventilation; noninvasive ventilator; surgical tracheostomy; weaning.