Helmet-based ventilator alternative
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@Mik Had exactly the same thought. The entire world is working on this problem. Who knows what we'll learn in another month.
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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!
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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."
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@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.
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@brenda said in Helmet-based ventilator alternative:
These look similar to what was shown in pics from Italy.
Indeed!
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