Mechanical ventilators for low- and middle-income countries: informing a context-specific and sustainable design

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, King's College London, London, UK.
² Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
³ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan.
⁴ Harvard Medical School, and Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; Department of Intensive Care & Laboratory of Experimental Intensive Care and Anesthesiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
⁶ Tanzania Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
⁷ Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, King's College London, London, UK; Department of Biomechanics, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE, USA; Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: federico.formenti@outlook.com.

Jack Gallifant et al. Br J Anaesth. 2022 Apr.

. 2022 Apr;128(4):e279-e281.

doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2022.01.007. Epub 2022 Feb 10.

¹ Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, King's College London, London, UK.
² Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
³ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan.
⁴ Harvard Medical School, and Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; Department of Intensive Care & Laboratory of Experimental Intensive Care and Anesthesiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
⁶ Tanzania Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
⁷ Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, King's College London, London, UK; Department of Biomechanics, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE, USA; Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: federico.formenti@outlook.com.

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Keywords: artificial respiration; healthcare access; low income; mechanical ventilators; survey.

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