Boyer, Tanna J.Mitchell, Sally A.Cartwright, Johnny F.Ahmed, Rami A.2020-11-092020-11-092020-06-02Boyer, T. J., Mitchell, S. A., Cartwright, J. F., & Ahmed, R. A. (2020). Innovative Use of High-Fidelity Lung Simulators to Test a Ventilator Splitter Device. A&A Practice, 14(8). https://doi.org/10.1213/XAA.00000000000012532575-3126https://hdl.handle.net/1805/24355This article is made available for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or be any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has rapidly exposed health care system inadequacies. Hospital ventilator shortages in Italy compelled US physicians to consider cre-ative solutions, such as using Y-pieces or T-pieces, to preclude the need to make decisions of life or death based on medical equipment availability. We add to current knowledge and testing capacity for ventilator splitters by reporting the ability to examine the functionality of ventilator splitters by using 2 high-fidelity lung simulators. Data obtained by the high-fidelity lung simula-tors included: tidal volume, respiratory rate, minute ventilation, peak inspiratory pressure, peak plateau pressure, and positive end-expiratory pressure.en-USPublic Health EmergencyCOVID-19VentilatorVentilator SplitterLungsSimulatorsArticle