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Professionals from the Emergency Service (ED) of the São João University Hospital Center (CHUSJ), in Porto, are receiving training on a device called ‘Casco’ (“respiratory helmets”), used in the ventilation of patients with 19, to despite the fact that this hospital unit only has one vacancy for the treatment of critical patients
But what device is this?
“The ‘Helmet’ is a device of Italian origin that has been in use for some years, but which has shown, in an even more sensitive way, its interest in the first wave of the covid pandemic in Italy, where, in fact, it was used , and where it was very useful in this context ”, emphasizes the clinician.
This device facilitates oxygenation and gas exchange in the body.
“It is a device that allows oxygen to be administered in high concentrations, while providing a positive pressure during inspiration and exhalation, which is very important in this type of pneumonia, in which the pulmonary alveoli are, so to speak, more rigid, and that they need this pressure to expand and facilitate the oxygenation and gas exchange of oxygen with carbon dioxide that normally occurs in the lungs ”, explains Nélson Pereira. coordinator of the covid team from the United States at Hospital São João.
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