TY - GEN
T1 - Saving Oxygen in Peru
T2 - 9th Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering, CLAIB 2022 and 28th Brazilian Congress on Biomedical Engineering, CBEB 2022
AU - Montoya-Salas, J.
AU - Ibarra-Arregui, S.
AU - Cóndor-Sánchez, J.
AU - Panduro-Tello, F.
AU - Gómez-Alzate, D.
AU - Castañeda, B.
AU - Pérez-Buitrago, S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, affordable and sustainable access to oxygen has been a growing challenge in low and middle income countries. The COVID-19 oxygen emergency affected more than half a million people in these countries on a daily basis, and despite being an essential medicine for the effective treatment of hospitalized patients, the access to this resource is limited due to cost, infrastructure or logistical barriers. Since the start of the pandemic, daily oxygen consumption in Peru has gone from approximately 200,000 m3 to 1,300,000 m3. Consequently, the present study was carried out through the analytical comparison of oxygen consumption between the Peruvian mechanical ventilator Masi and the Phillips Trilogy Evo commercial ventilator by means of tank weighing. Finally, with the resulting data, Masi showed a significantly lower oxygen consumption, reflected in an annual reduction of 25752.61 PEN (Peruvian Nuevo Sol currency) per ventilator in continuous use. In socioeconomic terms, these values are relevant to the healthcare system of Peru.
AB - Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, affordable and sustainable access to oxygen has been a growing challenge in low and middle income countries. The COVID-19 oxygen emergency affected more than half a million people in these countries on a daily basis, and despite being an essential medicine for the effective treatment of hospitalized patients, the access to this resource is limited due to cost, infrastructure or logistical barriers. Since the start of the pandemic, daily oxygen consumption in Peru has gone from approximately 200,000 m3 to 1,300,000 m3. Consequently, the present study was carried out through the analytical comparison of oxygen consumption between the Peruvian mechanical ventilator Masi and the Phillips Trilogy Evo commercial ventilator by means of tank weighing. Finally, with the resulting data, Masi showed a significantly lower oxygen consumption, reflected in an annual reduction of 25752.61 PEN (Peruvian Nuevo Sol currency) per ventilator in continuous use. In socioeconomic terms, these values are relevant to the healthcare system of Peru.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Comparative study
KW - Cost savings
KW - Mechanical ventilation
KW - Oxygen consumption
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85181767183&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-49407-9_46
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-49407-9_46
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85181767183
SN - 9783031494062
T3 - IFMBE Proceedings
SP - 453
EP - 464
BT - 9th Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering and 28th Brazilian Congress on Biomedical Engineering - Proceedings of CLAIB and CBEB 2022—Volume 3
A2 - Marques, Jefferson Luiz Brum
A2 - Rodrigues, Cesar Ramos
A2 - Suzuki, Daniela Ota Hisayasu
A2 - García Ojeda, Renato
A2 - Marino Neto, José
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 24 October 2022 through 28 October 2022
ER -