New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is “scouring the globe” for ventilators and has resorted to trying an experimental procedure where they split the ventilators between two patients because “we have no alternative.”
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Strategies to help state and local planners in allocating stockpiled ventilators to healthcare facilities, including pre-pandemic actions and actions to be taken during the pandemic, are detailed in a new article appearing in Health Security.
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In light of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Medtronic is ramping up its ventilator production by more than 40%. And the company may be getting help from an unlikely ally: Elon Musk.
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The Department of Defense will make available medical supplies and devices including up to 5 million single-use respirator masks, 2,000 deployable ventilators, and at least 14 testing labs to aid the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Medtronic is notifying customers worldwide of a voluntary field corrective action—a software update—for its Puritan Bennett 980 (PB980) ventilator series. The software updates the external USB Drive performance and its impact on Graphical User Interface (GUI) functionality and the labeling displayed on the GUI during ventilator use, Medtronic said in a statement.
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