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Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts) Sun Mar 22, 2020, 10:24 AM Mar 2020

Canadian Dr. turns one ventilator into nine. (Thinking positive!)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8136299/Doctors-turns-one-ventilator-nine-genius-DIY-mechanics.html?ito=facebook_share_fbia-top

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Canadian Dr. turns one ventilator into nine. (Thinking positive!) (Original Post) Guilded Lilly Mar 2020 OP

Saw video where ventilator converted for 2, not 9. The respiratory therapists commenting Hoyt Mar 2020 #1

Hoyt

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1. Saw video where ventilator converted for 2, not 9. The respiratory therapists commenting

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Sun Mar 22, 2020, 11:38 AM

Mar 2020

went crazy saying each one needed exact flow-rate settings, etc.

I don't think even they get that in this circumstance "close" might have to be good enough and they are going to have to adapt. Maybe one or two of those 9 aren't optimally ventilated, but the other 7 might be ventilated well enough to live. Obviously, one would have to use that on patients with similar needs.

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