UK government orders more ventilators for coronavirus crisis from Smiths Medical and Penlon, both UK firms.
This is some good news although I still have questions about when will be delivery of the 10k ventilators and 5k back up theguardian.com/world/2020/mar…
This is some good news although I still have questions about when will be delivery of the 10k ventilators and 5k back up theguardian.com/world/2020/mar…
This development particularly interests me given the risks and outcome of intubation :
“A breathing aid that was designed and built in less than a week to keep Covid-19 patients out of intensive care has been delivered to London hospitals for clinical trials...
“A breathing aid that was designed and built in less than a week to keep Covid-19 patients out of intensive care has been delivered to London hospitals for clinical trials...
“Engineers from UCL & doctors at Uni College London hos developed the continuous positive airway pressure (Cpap) device – which is claimed to be an improvement on existing Cpap systems – with Mercedes Formula One in less than 100 hours from 1st meeting to first production model”
If this works well and refined it could be really useful in more routine healthcare.
