Hospitals everywhere are in need of medical ventilators to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U.S. government has invoked a decades-old statute to increase production of the machines, while a number of companies, both in the medtech space and outside of it, have stepped forward in an effort to get as many ventilators into hospitals as possible.
Amid the shortage, research teams took to developing alternatives to occupy less-critical patients who don’t need the invasive, intensive care unit ventilators. The FDA relaxed guidance on ventilation, citing CPAP and BPAP machines, commonly used for sleep apnea treatment, as potential stopgap options.
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