Planning Hospital Needs for Ventilators and Respiratory Therapists in the COVID-19 Crisis

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Planning Hospital Needs for Ventilators and Respiratory Therapists in the COVID-19 Crisis

05/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: RAND Corporation. Published: 5/2020. To address the ventilator allocation problem during the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors of this 16-page report designed a model that can be used to calculate the number of ventilators and respiratory therapists needed to achieve a target wait time — the average delay for a ventilator experienced by a new patient. The target wait time corresponds with a probability that any wait is experienced: If the average wait is small, most patients would in fact experience no wait at all. (PDF)