Anesthesia machines can become COVID-19 ventilators

In order to compensate for lack of ventilators, hospitals have started to convert anesthesia machines into breathing machines.

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, concern at hospitals about a shortage of personal protective equipment and ventilators that help critically ill patients breathe is on the rise.

Michael McLaughlin, an assistant professor and assistant program director of the Rutgers University Nurse Anesthesia program, has been on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis and intubated many COVID-19 patients.

Here he discusses how the anesthesia machine conversion works and how it can help alleviate the ventilator shortage:

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