This is a modified excerpt of an article published in PittWire on May 20, 2020.
Read the entire article as published  here.

As hospitals across the world treat patients with COVID-19, physicians from different departments who don’t usually work in the intensive care unit (ICU) are being called on to help. That means learning how to use ventilators for COVID-19 patients.

Dr. Burton Lee, Dr. Megan Acho, and other medical experts at Pitt have created a series of peer-reviewed educational videos aimed at instructing those who aren’t acclimated to an ICU setting on how to best use ventilators for COVID-19 patients, titled “Ventilators for Non-Intensivists.”   READ MORE