Thread by @filmervishal

1.After reading @ManMundra @bhootnath with others collecting monies for #Ventilators, got reminded of my medicine days of crisis, complexity & cost for ventilators.

This HACK-THREAD wil b bout mitigating d cost, finding hacks and simple solutions,

@PMOIndia @drharshvardhan

2. So according to feasibility study published in 2006 (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.119…) we can use ONE VENTILATOR in minimum 4 patients , in conditions like India we can also use it for as many as 9 patients. In 2017 Las Vegas shooting this technique was used.

3. #Ventilator is complex machine used for a very simple process of breathing
A patient is given mouth to mouth resuscitation & bag n mask ventilation for survival. If #India goes in a phase like #ITALY we won't suffice Ventilators. We will have to think of simple hacks (thread)

4. bfore going in Xtreme breathing condn (ARDS) needing INTUBATION,major chunk needs oxygen with a pressure to inflate the lungs as done in bag n mask.
in 2019

Rice University's TakeaBreatherTeam has developed an automated bag valve mask. link
@PMOIndia

India's Prof @diwakarvaish made a low cost Ventilator, uses an Android app to control it and it 1/10th of regular cost for a ventilator, he claims- can produce ~20,000 units in a month.

@drharshvardhan can take this in account to get this indigenous solution to #COVIDー19

Lakhs of patients India use CPAP /Bipap machines for SLEAP APNEA.

can also be used in most cases before onset of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

These are low cost also can be connected to Oxygen Cylinder through a concentrator. @drharshvardhan #CoronaUpdatesInIndia

Here is sample and cost of India made Ventilator claims to be cheapest yet most Advanced one.

#CoronavirusPandemic
#JanataCurfew
#COVIDー19
@ManMundra @bhootnath @bhak_sala

Hope the govt order is in place.
We shall work on finding parallel manufacturing processes so we can have atleast one hundred thousand combating units.

https://twitter.com/diwakarvaish/status/1241627957640040449?s=19