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  2. Rethinking coronavirus, growing questions about the use of ...

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    Early reporting on coronavirus deaths from China, Italy and the U.S. show that more than half — and as many as two-thirds — of COVID-19 patients who are placed on ventilators don’t survive.

  3. Ventilator - Wikipedia

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    During the 2019–2020 COVID-19 pandemic, various kinds of ventilators have been considered. Deaths caused by COVID-19 have occurred when the most severely infected experience acute respiratory distress syndrome, a widespread inflammation in the lungs that impairs the lungs' ability to absorb oxygen and expel carbon dioxide. These patients ...

  4. Treatment and management of COVID-19 - Wikipedia

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    A critically ill patient receiving invasive ventilation in the intensive care unit of the Heart Institute, University of São Paulo, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. Due to a shortage of mechanical ventilators, a bridge ventilator is being used to automatically actuate a bag valve mask .

  5. The U.S. has spent billions stockpiling ventilators, but many ...

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    With the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across its shores earlier this year, the U.S. government in April announced orders for almost $3 billion of ventilators for a national stockpile, meant to save ...

  6. Tesla Shows 'Car Parts-Based' Ventilator Prototype For ... - AOL

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    Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) on Sunday publicized a prototype of its ventilators for patients who fall critically ill from novel coronavirus (COVID-19).What Happened "We are trying to make some ...

  7. Open-source ventilator - Wikipedia

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    On May 29, 2020, NASA revealed the "Eight US Manufacturers Selected to Make NASA COVID-19 Ventilator." [51] The U.S. companies selected for licenses are: Vacumed, a division of Vacumetrics, Inc. in Ventura, California; Stark Industries, LLC in Columbus, Ohio; MVent, LLC, a division of Minnetronix Medical, in St. Paul, Minnesota

  8. Ventec Life Systems - Wikipedia

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    On March 21, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, General Motors announced a partnership with Ventec Life Systems to produce ventilators. The partnership was expected to build 10,000 ventilators per month at GM's facilities in Kokomo, Indiana, using Ventec's VOCSN platform. [16] [17] Ventec is one of twelve worldwide manufacturers of ventilators ...

  9. Raspberry Pi will power ventilators for COVID-19 patients - AOL

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    Medical device manufacturers are turning to Raspberry Pi devices to serve as the brains for the ventilators that treat COVID-19 patients.