The U.S. FDA’s emergency authorization of medical devices—meant for temporary use when the COVID-19 pandemic began 18 months ago—is still in effect. That’s a major issue for healthcare safety insider, Marcus Schabacker, MD, PhD, president and CEO of ECRI, who sees the potential dangers posed to patient safety.
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An Indiana man, who helped build ventilators, tragically died of COVID-19. Greg Wohlford, a shop chairman for General Motors, helped facilitate the automaker’s ventilators production out of his plant in Kokomo, Ind.
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Three medical engineering graduates of the University of South Florida catapulted themselves into the pandemic spotlight with their upgrade to the ventilator. Carolyna Yamamoto Alves Pinto, Abby Blocker, and Jacob Yarinsky took home first prize and $20,000, after winning a national competition for their device that allows multiple patients to be treated with a single ventilator.
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Researchers have developed an online tool to help medical staff quickly determine which COVID-19 patients will need help breathing with a ventilator.
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At the start of the pandemic, a team developed the low-cost Field Ventilator to treat patients in poor and remote parts of the world. They now hope that the portable device can be used beyond COVID-19 to treat a range of respiratory diseases and patients in need of respiratory support.
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