Professor Jonathan Van-Tam said the unprecedented demand for oxygen to treat coronavirus patients would lead to 'isolated incidents' in some hospitals.
patients could experience"isolated" problems with their oxygen supply as they deal with the enormous challenge of meeting the"unprecedented demand with this virus".
"I do know that there has been absolutely enormous logistic work 24/7 behind the scenes to keep hospitals supplied with oxygen," Van Tam said,"but you're right, we have seen one or two reports of where something has gone slightly wrong with an oxygen supply, and that's partly about the stress on the whole engineering system of a hospital that is required to produce the oxygen demands for double the number of ventilators, and we have to learn as we go along and our...
But Simon Walsh, the British Medical Association’s lead on emergency medicine, told BuzzFeed News the issue was likely not the total amount available, but that hospitals are limited in the amount of oxygen they can deliver, as each system has a"flow rate" that must not be exceeded.
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