The Moscow ambulance bought 70 portable ventilators

On February 10, 2021 it became known of purchase of 70 portable medical ventilators (IVL) for the Station of ambulance and emergency medical service of A.S. Puchkov in Moscow. The equipment gives respiratory support to patients in a serious condition and even to children with critically low body weight, including to premature kids.

As reported on the official site of the Mayor of Moscow, new devices for IVL allow to carry out not only traditional (invasive) artificial, but also auxiliary (mask) ventilation of lungs. At the same time the sparing operation modes for patients are used. Such equipment already showed the efficiency in treatment of heavy bilateral pneumonia against the background of COVID-19. The cost of purchase is not reported.

The Moscow ambulance bought 70 portable OXIVENT OXI4 Plus ventilators

The Moscow ambulance always had ventilators, but the functionality new much more exceeds old models. First aid should be not just fast, but hi-tech — the capital city's mayor Sergey Sobyanin wrote on the page to Twitter.

He attached photos of that ventilator which was purchased for the Moscow ambulance to the post. It is about the OXIVENT OXI4 Plus model developed by Modül Group Engineering company. On the website of the producer following features of the device are specified:

• The OXIVENT OXI4 Plus model is completely autonomous from supply of compressed air for ensuring operation of the drive as it has the high-performance built-in turbine.
• Possibility of equipment by the battery of back supply till 24 o'clock completely independent operation.
• Options of a kapnometriya and pulsioxymetry are available.
• The HiFlow O2 mode is available" which allows to carry out high-line nasal oxygenotherapy (to 80 l/min with concentration of O2 to 90%) on means of nasal cannulas.^[1]

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