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The race to make more ventilators

Recode Daily

Recode

Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Why life-saving ventilators for Covid-19 patients are in short supply, and how people like Dr. Richard Boyer are trying to fix that. Featuring @SaraMorrison Links to resources discussed: Trump isn't making America's ventilator shortage any easier The Covent-19 Challenge Host: Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Follow Us: Newsletter: Recode Daily Twitter: @Recode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:56.6

We actually do a lot of care for patients that are also in the critical care

1:02.0

units around the hospital.

1:04.6

So because we are experts in ventilation in the operating room that easily

1:09.8

translates to ventilation in the ICU, so that's why it's very relevant to this COVID-19 crisis.

1:15.3

Okay, so are you saying that as an asthesiologist you're actually helping people breathe right now?

1:21.1

We are. My name is Richard Boyer. I'm a fourth year anesthesiology resident from Massachusetts General Hospital. So how important... physician patients multiple times a day and using ventilators probably between five

1:45.8

and eight hours a day to provide mechanical ventilation to patients. In

1:51.1

intubation we provide a protected airway so what we basically do is take a tube

1:58.2

then we place it into the trachea which is the main airway that leads to the lungs.

2:04.4

How does it make you feel that you're having to help ventilate patients for hours every day because

2:11.6

of this pandemic.

2:13.0

When we see patients being intubated that are otherwise healthy and young

2:18.0

because of a viral pneumonia, that's very concerning.

2:22.0

It sounds like you're worried.

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