Posted on 04/15/2020 1:25:46 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
A medical ventilator to help Covid-19 patients breathe has been granted regulatory approval, meaning hundreds could be rolled out to hospitals from next week.
Penlons ESO2 device, developed under the codename Project Oyster, will become the first model to get the green light from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), with an announcement expected as soon as Thursday.
Formal approval comes amid mounting concern that tens of thousands of ventilators ordered by the government are still awaiting regulatory clearance.
The length of the process has stoked fears about the readiness of the NHS for a surge in patients requiring ventilation. The health secretary, Matt Hancock, has said the government wants to increase ventilator stocks from 10,000 to 18,000 to be sure of having enough.
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Ventilators are a death sentence, say no unless you are literally unconscious, tell them you want HCQ early, you can buy your own Zinc if you need to.
Well!! This story made MY day!!
Ventilator PING!!
I will sleep well this night.
Agreed.
What makes you say that?
Won’t help much if you can’t pass the initial “economically feasible or politically correct NHS hospital entrance tests”.
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