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A member asked:

If my son was on a ventilator that is on recall because it stop giving oxygen to the pt whit out letting the dr knowing can it cause harm to his lung

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Unlikely an issue: Most icu's maintain some redundancy in their monitoring which allows the staff to continuously monitor the blood oxygen, expired co2 and other features of a ventilator with equipment that is physically separate from that ventilator.( a separate monitor ) if the unit was not maintaining such redundancy, it might be an issue.

Dr Majzun agreed

Answered 4/19/2013

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