National Guard To Be Trained To Use Hand-Pump Respirators 24/7 On Patients If Mechanical Respirators Run Out

Damn that sounds tiring…

Darren Rovell
@darrenrovell
Gov. Cuomo says that New York has bought 3,000 bag valve masks, which is a manual pump breathing apparatus and has talked about having National Guard members trained to help pump them manually for 24 hours a day for Coronavirus patients if there is a ventilator shortage.

 

h/t BFD

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