States and hospitals are preparing to convert anesthesia machines for use on COVID-19 patients in need of breathing assistance.
March 27, 2020, 8:06 AMThere are more than 511,000 coronavirus cases worldwide, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.continues to spread across the country, states and hospitals are preparing to convert anesthesia machines for use on COVID-19 patients in need of breathing assistance., could make tens of thousands of additional machines available for the fight against the coronavirus.
Tune into ABC at 1 p.m. ET and ABC News Live at 4 p.m. ET every weekday for special coverage of the novel coronavirus with the full ABC News team, including the latest news, context and analysis. Using computer-driven technology, the most advanced models include sophisticated software that provides doctors with immediate feedback on a patient’s breathing and lung capacity.
Anesthesia machines are constructed to deliver oxygen and gas mixtures to place patients under anesthesia during surgical procedures, but can be modified to aid patients struggling to breathe on their own.“They provide the basic components of ventilation, but they don’t provide the alarms, monitoring and sophistication that critical care ventilators do,” Tim Myers, a registered respiratory therapist and chief business officer for the American Association of Respiratory Care, told ABC News.
But with roughly 150,000 - 200,000 ventilators in the United States – far short of the one million breathing machines that
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