One ventilator, two patients - The Hindu BusinessLine
One ventilator, two patients ISTOCK.COM - Getty Images/iStockphoto× Thanks to the pandemic, the world is short by about a million ventilators, according to one estimate last year. A quick-fix solution has been to multiplex — split the outlet tube so that each ventilator is shared by many patients. However, doctors frown at split ventilation because it brings a host of problems, such as lack of independent control for each patient and cross-contamination of pathogens. Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, have designed a way to connect a ventilator to tw...
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