Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a rapidly expanding global pandemic. In March 2020, models forecasted imminent exhaustion of regional ventilator supply in New York (1). In response, we developed a novel ventilator sharing strategy to support two patients simultaneously with one ventilator. This report details our initial ventilator sharing experience among patients with COVID-19-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Methods This article is open access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License 4.
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