The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed major deficiencies and inequities in the U.S. healthcare system, shining a spotlight on improvements that must be made to steel the country for future disasters, argues University of Rochester Medical Center Assistant Professor Maia Dorsett, MD.
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The Advanced Medical Association (AdvaMed) has requested that the U.S. Trade Representative provide additional tariff exclusions for medical devices, components, and supplies coming from China needed in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Free open-source hardware and 3D printing could help to alleviate the burden of COVID-19 on global health systems, according to scientists at the University of Sussex in England.
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One of 24×7 Magazine’s editorial board members, Dr. Binseng Wang, exchanged emails with the operations manager of an independent service organization that supports public hospitals in Northern Italy to learn firsthand how the pandemic affected the people and HTM professionals there.
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A simple “do it yourself” breathing circuit, using accessories that are readily available in intensive care, can be used to ventilate two critically ill patients at once, should clinicians be faced with equipment shortages, suggests research published online in the journal Thorax.
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