Learn how to properly set up, SST, and initiate ventilation with the Puritan Bennett 980 ventilator!
Another videotutorial:
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdDtSrwQ1BQ

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAUft9YJ80E









Pre-use check: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt4PJ2KugAk

Learn how to use the Puritan Bennett 840 Ventilator!

Pre-use check: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBLjQ60Ftc4

As of March 25, 2020, 414 179 cases and 18 440 deaths due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), had been reported worldwide. The epidemic began in mainland China, with a geographical focus in the city of Wuhan, Hubei. However, on Feb 26, 2020, the rate of increase in cases became greater in the rest of the world than inside China. Substantial outbreaks are occurring in Italy (69 176 cases), the USA (51 914 cas...

The Trump administration is spending nearly half a billion dollars on one company in the race to find a coronavirus vaccine.




That’s according to a $456 million order with Johnson & Johnson’s Pharmaceuticals arm Janssen, which specified a “new vaccine asset for 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19),” Forbes found. It’s the largest reported amount spent on a vaccine project to date, even though the pharma giant hasn’t yet started any clinical trials as other firms have.

The COVID-19 pandemic is straining health systems worldwide. The rapidly increasing demand on health facilities and health care workers threatens to leave some health systems overstretched and unable to operate effectively.




Previous outbreaks have demonstrated that when health systems are overwhelmed, mortality from vaccine-preventable and other treatable conditions can also increase dramatically. During the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak, the increased number of deaths cause...

The infection-control measures put in place in many European countries – such as national lockdowns – are reducing the spread of the coronavirus. Across 11 countries in Western and Northern Europe, between 21,000 and 120,000 deaths will probably have been avoided by the end of March, according to a new model by a group at Imperial College London. The study, published by the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team on 30 March, estimates the effects that non-pharmaceutical interventions, which ...

Pregnant women infected with Covid-19 were evaluated to provide future help for clinical prevention and treatment. All the cases were from Hospital of Hubei Province and had the gestational week from 38th weeks to 41th weeks. Their primary initial manifestations were merely low-grade postpartum fever or mild respiratory symptoms. 




As a conclusion, these doctors stated that the protective measures are necessary on admission, and the instant CT scan and real-time ...

Could administration of convalescent plasma transfusion be beneficial in the treatment of critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)?
In this uncontrolled case series of 5 critically ill patients with COVID-19 and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), administration of convalescent plasma containing neutralizing antibody was followed by an improvement in clinical status.
These preliminary findings raise the possibility that convalescent plasma transfusion may...

Architects have designed mobile hospitals in order to provide intensive care to the patients of coronavirus, which can increase their chance of survival.

An Italian design company has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create prefabricated intensive care units (ICUs), to deal with escalating numbers of coronavirus patients around the world.
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Via Science, Jocelyn Kaiser write: How sick will the coronavirus make you? The answer may be in your genes
COVID-19, caused by the new pandemic coronavirus, is strangely—and tragically—selective. Only some infected people get sick, and although most of the critically ill are elderly or have complicating problems such as heart disease, some killed by the disease are previously healthy and even relatively young. Researchers are now gearing up to scour the patients’ genomes for DNA variations...

The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) has launched a regularly updated document that represents a resource for smoke and gas evacuation based on known science, vetted publications, and potential strategies. The aim is to offer the best protection to both patients and the health care team. 


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WHO is gathering the latest scientific findings and knowledge on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and compiling it in a database. 
The database is updated daily from searches of bibliographic databases, hand searches of the table of contents of relevant journals, and the addition of other relevant scientific articles that come to our attention. The entries in the database may not be exhaustive and new research will be added regularly.

You can search the WHO database of publications on...