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CoVent Challenge Calls for Solutions for the Looming Ventilator Crisis

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Originally published in Mass General

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  • A team of 12 residents in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital have launched an eight-week campaign to address the growing demand for ventilators in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic
  • The initiative, called the CoVent-19 Challenge, is crowdsourcing solutions from the global medical community

A team of 12 residents in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital have launched an eight-week campaign to address the growing demand for ventilators in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative, called the CoVent-19 Challenge, is crowdsourcing solutions from the global medical community for rapidly deployable designs for ventilation alternatives and ways to safely modify existing ventilators to ventilate two patients at one time. Diana Barragan-Bradford, MD, anesthesia resident at Mass General and CoVent Challenge co-director, shares more about the challenge in a Q&A.

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