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For those who rely on ventilators to breathe, and for those who don't have access to adequate, free health care.
But mechanical ventilators take over the process, getting oxygen into the body when the respiratory system cannot.
There are two main ways ventilators can work— pumping air into the patient’s lungs through positive pressure ventilation, or allowing air to be passively drawn in through negative pressure ventilation.
In most modern ventilators, an embedded computer system allows for monitoring the patient’s breathing and adjusting the airflow.
But in extreme situations, ventilators can be the difference between life and death.
The world urgently needs more low-cost and portable ventilators, as well as a faster means of producing and distributing this life-saving technology.
Tubing for ventilators (hung to dry over a hole in the floor used to dispose of urine and wastes) was not disinfected correctly.
In the developed world, mechanical ventilators provide the respiratory support of bubble CPAP.
But mechanical ventilators are far too expensive for developing-country health systems, leaving millions of patients in much of the Global South without access to life-saving bubble CPAP.
A flu pandemic will require triage on many levels, including not only decisions about which patients are likely to benefit from scarce commodities such as drugs, vaccines, and ventilators, but also broader public policy choices about how best – among, literally, a world of possibilities – to expend resources.
Some patients who were dependent on ventilators died.
There is no air conditioning in the hospital, no ventilators working, smog is penetrating everywhere, including the emergency room’s operating theatre.
For starters, government should impose minimal restrictions on firms and employees when harnessing the private sector for temporary emergency purposes – whether producing tanks in World War II or ventilators now.
Europe and the US do not yet have the epidemic under control, and shortages of life-saving ventilators and deaths of health workers lacking basic protective gear compound the tragedy.
They have redeployed their resources from revenue-generating activities to the production of vital equipment, such as protective gear for frontline health workers (including surgical masks, face shields, and gowns) and ventilators.
We now have the lead time to secure the business equivalent of the missing virus tests and ventilators.
For example, 60 governments have imposed export restrictions on medical equipment such as ventilators and personal protective equipment – more than half since the beginning of March.
With the federal government failing to coordinate procurement of medical supplies to combat COVID-19, state and local governments have reportedly been competing to purchase scarce personal protective equipment and ventilators, thus driving up prices.
And if there are not enough health workers, ventilators, or hospital beds, then patients often will need to be categorized and prioritized to determine who receives (or does not receive) which care, and where.
China as Economic BogeymanCAMBRIDGE – As COVID-19 spread from China to Europe and then the United States, pandemic-stricken countries found themselves in a mad scramble for medical supplies – masks, ventilators, protective garments.
For example, he made sure that Colorado received 100 much-needed ventilators, and made sure that Colorado voters knew it, in order to help re-elect troubled incumbent Republican senator Cory Gardner.
We also should be thankful for the international (including American) medical, pharmaceutical, and other companies that have been quietly sourcing masks, gloves, gowns, ventilators and other critical supplies for China.
Exercising my authority under the Defense Production Act of 1950, I have ordered our pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and textile companies to produce 300 million COVID-19 tests, one million ventilators, and enough personal protective equipment for 20 million health-care workers.
Yet if we do nothing as the disease spreads in poorer African, Asian, and Latin American cities and in fragile communities which have little testing equipment, ventilators, and medical supplies, and where social distancing and even washing hands are difficult to achieve, COVID-19 will persist there and re-emerge to hit the rest of the world with further rounds that will prolong the crisis.
The immediate priority now is to increase the supply of personal protective equipment, such as N95 masks and medical gowns, as well as ventilators.
US President Donald Trump has (belatedly) invoked the DPA to issue contracts for more ventilators and face masks.
First, we must strengthen our medical capacity to fight pandemics by increasing the supply of intensive-care beds, ventilators, and other essential goods and equipment.
California, for example, never maintained the supplies then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger built up to combat the 2002-03 SARS epidemic, and had to repair hundreds of defective ventilators.
And few African countries have a meaningful supply of ventilators, a crucial tool for treating serious cases of COVID-19.
Funding also must be provided to meet the global need for ventilators and personal protective equipment.
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