Helmet-based ventilator alternative

[George K]

Related: https://time.com/5818547/ventilators-coronavirus/

[Mik]

My first thinking on this disease is it would be better to get it early when the health system is not overwhelmed. Now I am thinking later as we are learning how better to help patients in distress.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Mik Had exactly the same thought. The entire world is working on this problem. Who knows what we'll learn in another month.

[mark]

Nice to see some innovation here.

[LuFins Dad]

We are at last starting to look like sci-fi told me Medical treatments would look like!

Next step? Big glass tanks filled with some medicinal gel!

[brenda]

These look similar to what was shown in pics from Italy.

[George K]

My surgeon friend and I were talking about how to get oxygen into patients without using a ventilator. This is obviously a good and simple solution (hope it works!). However, he suggested hyperbaric chambers.

I suppose that would work as well, but if you think ventilators are in short supply....

Then he said, "Airplanes. Widebody airplane fuselage could become a very large hyperbaric pressure chamber. Maybe not more than 2 atm but, hey it might be useful."

[Copper]

[jon-nyc]

@Mik said in Helmet-based ventilator alternative:

My first thinking on this disease is it would be better to get it early when the health system is not overwhelmed. Now I am thinking later as we are learning how better to help patients in distress.

Not at all > after a treatment > after the peak > before the peak > during the peak.

[A Former User]

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[brenda]

@brenda said in Helmet-based ventilator alternative:

These look similar to what was shown in pics from Italy.

Indeed!

https://www-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-italy-bergamo-icu-patients-bubble-helmets-explainer-2020-3?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&amp&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=15866185584817&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From %251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fcoronavirus-italy-bergamo-icu-patients-bubble-helmets-explainer-2020-3

[brenda]

From 2004:

https://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org/article.aspx?articleid=1943689