Double ventilator
A ventilation device for connecting two people to a ventilator was developed on March 16, 2020 by the Italian professor of anesthesia and resuscitation, Marco Ranieri . The first prototype was built within 72 hours by a company in Mirandola in the Emilia-Romagna region and tested in a hospital in Bologna . Ranieri ordered 1,000 of these devices from the company. The first are to be delivered to Piacenza and Parma . However, only patients with similar ventilation requirements can be paired with these. The purpose of the device is to be able to offer ventilation to a sufficient number of patients in the event of a relative shortage of ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic .
At Columbia University Medical Center Irving and at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan experimented anesthesiologists around the March 26, 2020 also at a double respirator.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Coronavirus: ventilatore “due in uno” biomedicalcue.it , March 21, 2020, accessed on March 26, 2020 (Italian)
- ↑ Coronavirus, Venturi: "Un ventilatore polmonare per più pazienti, una bella notizia che ci riempie di orgoglio" regione.emilia-romagna.it , March 19, 2020, accessed on March 23, 2020 (Italian)
- ↑ Coronavirus, un ventilatore per due persone: già testato a Bologna ansa.it , March 21, 2020, accessed on March 23, 2020 (Italian)
- ↑ Coronavirus, scoperto come collegare respiratore a più circuiti adnkronos.com , March 19, 2020, accessed on March 23, 2020 (Italian)
- ↑ One ventilator, two patients: New York hospitals shift to crisis mode reuters.com , March 26, 2020, accessed on March 27, 2020