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Hospitals Convert Other Machines into Ventilators
They say that necessity is the mother of invention. In that vein, a top New York hospital system is repurposing its anesthetics-dispensing equipment and other devices into makeshift breathing machines since most of its ventilators are already hooked up to COVID-19 patients.
Coronavirus Patients Could Share Limited Ventilators
Mechanical engineers at Johns Hopkins University are working to design a “splitter” that could enable one ventilator to support multiple COVID-19 patients, according to a report in The Baltimore Sun.
Report: 2000 ventilators in USA Federal stockpile u/s due to maintenance lapse
According to a new report from The New York Times, more than 2,000 ventilators in the federal stockpile can’t be deployed because they were not properly maintained while they were in storage.
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