Leveraging Technology as a Response to the COVID Pandemic

Chapter 11 Remote Respiratory Care for Rural Asia—Impetus for the World

Chris Landon and Vinay Joshi

DOI: 10.4324/b23264-11

Contents

• Introduction
• Access to Healthcare
• Solutions
• In the Pandemic and Beyond: Tele-ventilation Opens the Way for Respiratory Care Everywhere
• A Novel Way to Address a Critical Shortage
• Cutting-Edge Security
• Multi-Encounter Longitudinal in Situ Simulation with Alpha Ventilator (“MERIT”)
• Summary

Introduction

COVID-19 has and will deepen economic and social inequalities: jobs—people who are unable to work from home have lost their income/have greater risk of infection; digital divide—countries lacking the digital capabilities for workers to work from home; gender gap—women are more likely to take care of children ...