Hospitals turn to snorkel masks to ease respirator overload

He spearheaded the design of a custom-made valve that fits to the top of full-face masks, where the snorkel is meant to go, allowing them to connect to standard BiPAP machines that feed pressurised air into masks.

This helps prevent the collapse of alveoli, lung air sacs needed for the intake of oxygen into our bodies and the exhalation of carbon dioxide. Pneumonia brought on by COVID-19 inflames the lung membrane and fills those sacs with liquid.In the worst-case infections, patients have to be hooked up to respirators in intensive-care units.The snorkelling mask solution could be a stop-gap measure for patients on the brink of intensive-care treatment but for whom no beds nor respirators are available.

He also said that, even if the tests prove conclusive, there were still questions about how many such masks could be made available by sporting companies, under what conditions.Learning of the emergency use being made of its snorkelling masks, Decathlon expressed"interest" - but also prudence. "At the moment we don't have confirmation that these solutions really work," it said on its Twitter account.

"If we see successful try-outs, and these hospitals confirm to us that some tests work, then we'll keep you informed. But in the meantime, beware of unsourced and unverified information spread on social media in recent days."

Our schools are also making them :)

futuristic

VictorianCHO hope Victoria can do this as well.

Good work.. Anything that can save the patient.

Innovative

pppecas

mrgclark !

KKMPutrajaya DGHisham drmusanordin DrAdhamBaba DrDzul Great crisis needs innovative ideas 👍

VGKnightinArmor 🤔

The key problem for losing life is not respirators, it is ventilators!

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