Gowns, masks, syringes and even buckets… “We lack everything” in resuscitation services at the moment, but an unprecedented surge of solidarity is softening the terror of the health crisis. "It started with coffee and cakes offered to comfort us during the on-call ," says Dr. Nicolas Weiss, medical resuscitator at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. Two weeks later, we are offered something to replace all that is missing in the service! ”
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Ideas are flowing on the WhatsApp group created by the doctor. In mid-March, a friend, director of a start-up in China, bought 20,000 masks and managed to send them to hospitals in Strasbourg and Colmar. Engineers from the National Center for Space Studies in Toulouse offer the resuscitator the possibility of manufacturing fittings with a 3D printer allowing, in the event of a crisis, to ventilate two patients on the same respirator. "They say they are ready to provide all resuscitation services by mobilizing
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