UK Updates Ventilator Specification Document As COVID-19 Patients Don’t Respond As Expected

With concerns that ventilation of COVID-19 patients is less effective than for non-infected patients, the UK’s MHRA has issued updated advice.

Ventilation

The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has amended its advice on the use of ventilators in line with clinical experience which suggests that COVID-19 patients do not respond as well on ventilators as expected.

In the latest update to its specification document for rapidly manufactured ventilator systems, it has issued an update on recent clinical experience. This is in addition to recent updates on...

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