The nation's hospitals, facing dire shortages of lifesaving ventilators as the coronavirus outbreak continues, are finding help from an unlikely source: animal doctors.
10 min readAmerican hospitals are increasingly concerned that there aren’t enough breathing machines that are critical to saving COVID-19 patients.outbreak continues, are finding help from an unlikely source: animal doctors.
"Every single one of these ventilators makes a difference," Dr. Andrew T. Maccabe, chief executive officer of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges, told ABC News. Ventilators used on animals are identical to machines at hospitals, according to several animal doctors and hospital officials who spoke to ABC News. Dogs and cats with pneumonia and other respiratory issues, not unlike their human counter parts, benefit immensely from the breathing machines, which quickly can be repurposed.
A dog undergoes a medical procedure at Cornell University's animal hospital. The school has loaned several spare ventilators to New York hospitals battling the coronavirus outbreak."It's actually the same equipment that we use here," Leslie Lussier, director of Respiratory Care and the Pulmonary Function Lab at Tufts Medical Center, told ABC News.
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