The customer reported that a patient with aml (acute myeloid leukemia) neutropenic sepsis and pulmonary edema and needing 100% oxygen but managing to clear co2 (carbon dioxide) was put on the 3100a.However, when on the oscillator, ph (potential of hydrogen) decreased from 7.4 to 6.8, and c02 increased from 6 to 21.End user performed hand ventilation and returned the patient back on the 3100a with max map and amplitude with no improvement.Filter helped slightly.The patient was then transferred to hfov b which managed well for 24 hours until the blue filter became really wet and could not maintain map (mean airway pressure).As desaturation began, the patient was transferred to another oscillator.
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