Patient in covid isolation precaution room unintentionally disconnected from bipap at mask.Rt responding to the critical event and identified the bipap tubing had been reconnected to the filter and not the mask.Connection points on the exhalation port in the fisher&payke bipap circuit product allows for mask/filter/circuit system to incorrectly assemble.This is easily confused by patient and medical staff that are not trained on circuit set-up.Recommend changing exhalation port to only assemble one way.Manufacture system to visually and physically prevent wrong set-up.Interim fix, hospitals should change out the current exhalation port and replace with a respironics dep w/ filter exhalation port product.
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