Research:Ventilator

Research

Variants and synonyms

• mechanical ventilator

Definition/description

In some cases, COVID-19 causes severe pneumonia, which requires respiratory support and can lead to death, especially in the presence of co-morbidities such as diabetes 30 or hypertension. Patients with severe pneumonia need to be treated in ICUs with the use of mechanical ventilators.

Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.17.20037788v1

Examples

The imperative need to treat a large number of patients affected by SARS-CoV-2 has motivated the consideration of a reliable, fail-safe, and easy to operate mechanical ventilator that can be produced quickly on a massive scale.

Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.24.20042234v1

Keyness

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