Abstract
Setting a ventilator is only apparently easy and requires some notions of respiratory physiology, because the setting of some parameters can directly influence others.
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Nava, S., Fanfulla, F. (2014). How I Set a Ventilator. In: Non Invasive Artificial Ventilation. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5526-1_7
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