What is a ventilator? The 'critical resource' that is in short supply
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A ventilator assists patients who cannot properly breathe on their own by pumping air through a tube that has been inserted into the patient's windpipe.
A ventilator assists patients who cannot properly breathe on their own by pumping air through a tube that has been inserted into the patient's windpipe.
This is additional taxonomy that helps us with analytics
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Frontiers Priorities Towards Fair Allocation of Ventilators During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Delphi Study
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Who gets ventilator priority?, MIT News
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All About ECMO American Lung Association
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Conceptual Framework for Determining Need and Allocation of Ventilators
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Joint Statement on Multiple Patients Per Ventilator - Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
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How Should We Allocate Scarce Medical Resources?
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Coronavirus pandemic: This is how India is trying to overcome ventilator shortage
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There Aren't Enough Ventilators to Cope With the Coronavirus - The New York Times
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When Ventilators Don't Help COVID-19 Patients, This Might
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Ventilator Makers Race to Prevent a Possible Shortage
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MIT team races to fill Covid-19-related ventilator shortage, MIT News
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New design tackles the ventilator access gap in low income countries
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COVID-19 Ventilator