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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Ventilators have gotten a lot of attention in the ongoing fight against COVID-19. But hundreds of hospitals around the world have another, less-publicized weapon that might help some of the most desperately ill patients survive when ventilators aren’t enough.
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A Penn State team of researchers has proposed a novel solution to the shortage of medical equipment: Reusing these devices via equipment designed for plasma-based sterilization in medical facilities.
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Army physicians working at hospitals within the Defense Health Agency have prototyped an isolation chamber that can be placed over the head and chest of patients diagnosed with COVID-19.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced that the city will create its own stockpile of medical equipment due to frustrations surrounding the national response to COVID-19.
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