From what I understand, they are doing that in Italy?http://www.regione.emilia-romagna.it/notizie/attualita/coronavirus-venturi-un-ventilatore-polmonare-per-piu-pazienti-una-bella-notizia-che-ci-riempie-di-orgoglio …
Question for a medical doctor: could a single ventilator be adapted with some additional tubes to ventilate two people in parallel?
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I think it's possible, though I am not a medical doctor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uClq978oohY&feature=emb_title …
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I saw pictures of such setup, but it seems patients sharing a machine should be of similar weight, have same blood oxygen pressure etc. If they share a ventilator doctors might not be able to adapt the individual patient's settings.
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That seems reasonable. Obviously it would only be a last resort, but at the same time you'd want to do it without a second thought if it became necessary when the alternative is death...
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This can be done, but it hasn't been rigorously tested for safety and efficacy
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Yes... that's not too surprising. I would only really see it as an alternative to letting a patient die due to a paucity of ventilators. But you wouldn't want it to result in the death of both if one could be saved, of course...
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Supposedly up to four, but it gets an order of magnitude less automatic.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16885402/
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