ArticleAfrican journal of primary health care & family medicine2020
Ventilators are not the answer in Africa.
Article in African journal of primary health care & family medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- A Novel CPAP Device With an Integrated Oxygen Concentrator for Low Resource Countries: In Vitro Validation and Usability Test in Field.IEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology · 2024Article
- Development and assessment of the performance of a shared ventilatory system that uses clinically available components to individualize tidal volumes.BMC anesthesiology · 2023Article
- Global critical care: a call to action.Critical care (London, England) · 2023Review
- COVID-19 Lessons Learned: Response to the Anticipated Ventilator Shortage.Respiratory care · 2023Article
- Experimental validation of a portable tidal volume indicator for bag valve mask ventilation.BMC biomedical engineering · 2022Article
- The mechanical ventilator of the future: a breath of hope for the viral pandemics to come.The Pan African medical journal · 2022Article
- We need to talk about critical care in Brazil.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2022Article
- Innovation in primary health care responses to COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa.Primary health care research & development · 2021Article
- Community distribution of oxygen: a unique COVID-19 intervention.Tropical medicine and health · 2021Article
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- Construction and Performance Testing of a Fast-Assembly COVID-19 (FALCON) Emergency Ventilator in a Model of Normal and Low-Pulmonary Compliance Conditions.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
The treatment of severely ill coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients has brought the worldwide shortage of oxygen and ventilator-related resources to public attention. Ventilators are considered as the vital equipment needed to manage these patients, who account for 3% - 5% of patients with Covid-19. Most patients need oxygen and supportive therapy. In Africa, the shortage of oxygen is even more severe and needs equipment that is simpler to use than a ventilator. Different models of generating oxygen locally at hospitals, including at provincial and district levels, are required. In some countries, hospitals have established small oxygen production plants to supply themselves and neighbouring hospitals. Oxygen concentrators have also been explored but require dependable power supply and are influenced by local factors such as ambient temperature and humidity. By attaching a reservoir tank, the effect of short power outages or high demands can be smoothed over. The local and regional energy unleashed in the citizens to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic should now be directed towards developing appropriate infrastructure for oxygen and critical care. This infrastructure is education and technology intensive, requiring investment in these areas.
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