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During earlier months of the pandemic, hospitals were primarily concerned about whether they’d have enough ventilators to treat critical patients. Now, after devicemakers ramped up production to make more than 200,000 ventilators, there’s plenty — but the new roadblock is a shortage of specialists who are trained to operate the complex machines, The New York Times reports.
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During earlier months of the pandemic, hospitals were primarily concerned about whether they’d have enough ventilators to treat critical patients. Now, after devicemakers ramped up production to make more than 200,000 ventilators, there’s plenty — but the new roadblock is a shortage of specialists who are trained to operate the complex machines, The New York Times reports.
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US has more #ventilators, but a shortage of #criticalcarephysicians to operate them @BeckersHR https://t.co/HkSF3DULc9
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Mashup Score: 1Racial, ethnic minorities with rheumatic disease, COVID-19 more likely to be hospitalized - 4 year(s) ago
Black and Hispanic patients with rheumatic diseases plus COVID-19 were more likely to require hospitalization and mechanical ventilation to treat their infections compared with white patients, according to data presented at ACR 2020. “As COVID-19 spread across the world earlier this spring, it became clear that the disease was impacting certain groups more than others,” Milena
Source: www.healio.comCategories: Latest Headlines, RheumatologyTweet-
Black and Hispanic patients with #rheumatic diseases plus #COVID19 were more likely to require #hospitalization and #ventilators noted Dr. Milena Gianfrancesco @UCSFMedicine at #ACR20 https://t.co/6NIYWx99IO
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Mashup Score: 0Roche's Actemra helps keep coronavirus patients off ventilators despite earlier trial flop - 4 year(s) ago
It looked like the end of road for the idea of targeting IL-6 to control serious pneumonia in COVID-19 patients when Sanofi and Regeneron’s Kevzara and Roche’s Actemra both flopped in clinical trials. But now, the Swiss pharma’s contender has staged a comeback—sort of.
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#Roche Actemra helps keep #coronavirus patients off #ventilators despite earlier trial flop | #covid19 https://t.co/DFFwKWcpqp
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Mashup Score: 0HHS cancels remainder of Philips' contract for 43K ventilators - 4 year(s) ago
The Trump administration has cut short its COVID-19 ventilator contract with Philips before a majority of the order could be delivered to the national stockpile.
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#HHS cancels remainder of Philips contract for 43K #ventilators (only 12,300 purchased) - follows claims overpaid Philips by as much as $500mn at $15,000/unit; other, smaller U.S. purchasers were able to negotiate the cost to less than half of that. https://t.co/042WHKgA0h
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As the COVID-19 pandemic roars on, the government stockpile of ventilators has reportedly turned into a collection of unused devices.
Source: MassDeviceCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
#Ventilators are piling up in government stockpiles - the U.S. HHS distributed 15,057 ventilators as of last Friday, with 95,713 ventilators remaining in the stockpile, among which 94,352 had come from contracts signed since the pandemic began | #COVID19 https://t.co/PUohwXSFcp
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Treatment with intravenous administration of AT-MSC in 13 severe COVID-19 pneumonia under mechanical ventilation in a small case series did not induce significant adverse events and was followed by clinical and biological improvement in most subjects.
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NEW #COVID19 : "Adipose-derived mesenchymal stromal cells for the treatment of patients with severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia requiring mechanical ventilation. A proof of concept study" https://t.co/ALWoEgjBXU #SARSCoV2 #ventilators #OpenAccess
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Mashup Score: 1Hyderabad startup launches smart ventilators - 4 year(s) ago
Leven will be making the ventilators in Hyderabad and will have a capacity to make 1,500-2,000 ventilators a month.
Source: Telangana TodayCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
#India #Hyderabad #startup Leven Medical launches smart #ventilators | #COVID19 https://t.co/GB5xGPzBQ6 https://t.co/mjpmj5Vv4L
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Mashup Score: 1ResMed Seeks to ‘Double or Triple’ Ventilator Production - 4 year(s) ago
ResMed CEO Mick Farrell said his company is “looking to double or triple the output of ventilators, and scale up ventilation mask production more than tenfold.”
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ResMed looking to double or triple its ventilator production in response to COVID-19 https://t.co/vsxbBVMVhh #RTmagazine #Resmed #ventilators #covid19
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Mashup Score: 10Risk of Legal Liability for Withdrawing or Withholding Ventilators From COVID-19 Patients - 4 year(s) ago
This Viewpoint discusses the legal risks to health care workers and hospital systems from withdrawing or withholding ventilation from COVID-19 patients and cites a Maryland statute that offers legal immunity to clinicians making good faith decisions under emergency conditions as an example for other…
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Hopefully, physicians and nurses, other health care professionals, and medical centers will be spared the tragic decisions that triaging and rationing #ventilators would entail https://t.co/AVfbruYTGU #COVID19
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#US has more #ventilators, but a shortage of critical care physicians to operate them | #COVID19 https://t.co/trUZchZHpa