A Canadian physician has shared a YouTube video, made by an American counterpart, showing how to turn a single-patient ventilator into a nine-person apparatus. Ontario doctor Alan Gauthier was inspired by a DIY instructional video, “COVID-19 How to Use One Ventilator to Save Multiple Lives,” made by Michigan doctor Charlene Babcock to do some jerry-rigging of his own.
Dr. Gauthier works at a rural hospital in Eastern Ontario, which only has nine ventilators for a population of 60,000 people in the region, per Toronto.com. While the hack, which involves extra tubing and valves, hasn’t been tested on humans yet, “at one point we may not have other options,” Gauthier told CBC News.
