Focus on Shared Ventilation Is “Missing the Point”: Expert Roundtable
… In addition, innovative alternatives have begun to emerge that could ultimately obviate the need for such extreme measures. For example, a system developed by the New York University Tandon School of Engineering (the NYU Tandon AirMOD) consists of modifications that “not only turn CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] and BiPAP [bilevel positive airway pressure] machines into oxygen-enrichment tools, they trap the virus in a patient’s breath with viral filters.”