Locating and repurposing anesthetic machines as intensive care unit ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic

Can J Anaesth. 2020 Aug;67(8):1066-1067. doi: 10.1007/s12630-020-01657-w. Epub 2020 Apr 14.

Authors

Beverley A Orser^{1

2}, Robert Byrick³, Richard Cooper³, Elihu Henry⁴, Philip Lau⁴, Brian Rittenberg⁵, Julian Wiegelmann^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. beverley.orser@utoronto.ca.
² Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada. beverley.orser@utoronto.ca.
³ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁵ Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Anesthesiology / instrumentation
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / therapy*
Critical Care / methods
Critical Illness
Equipment Design
Humans
Intensive Care Units*
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / therapy*
Ventilators, Mechanical / supply & distribution*