The return of the ‘Iron Lung’?

Could the use of “Iron lung” ventilators reduce ventilator-associated complications and the death rate in the most severely affected Covid-19 patients?

Is mechanical ventilation exacerbating the COVID-19 death toll?

Health services around the world have scrambled to amass more mechanical ventilators to help the patients most adversely affected by COVID-19, but the use of these machines involves risks of its own, and careful management and nursing.