From Brian McGowan:
In response to COVID-19, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s clinical physics team have converted 100 anaesthetic machines to ventilators.
The First Minister thanked clinical physics teams across Scotland in Parliament today for their efforts on increasing ventilator capacity by repurposing equipment.
This is part of the board’s overall mobilisation plan to quadruple critical care capacity to cope with COVID-19, as requested by the Scottish Government.
Patients with coronavirus often have difficulty breathing and ventilators are used in hospital to help with this.
A team of 12 technicians in the past few days converted the medical equipment at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and Royal Alexandra Hospital.
They were able to do this by changing the machines’ inner tubing to use air instead of oxygen to operate the ventilator. The machines were then tested, calibrated and are now approved for use to treat patients with coronavirus.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Historical factlet – The University of Glasgow during the 19th century set upthe world’s first department of clinical physics.
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Keep em coming!
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Did they have a leading light we could name something else after?
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Why wan’t it called clinical natural philosophy? I used to get fed up explaining that my Nat Phil degree was in hard science.
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That is a very good story. I’m aplauding them now, I don’t know if it’s Thursday and don’t care that it is nowhere near 8 o clock.
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Good for you Alan – I’m not sure where this clapping thing came from and the radio just keeps saying ‘the organisers’, so is it a mystery? Just a form of population control?
I would like to see loads of people doing things like this, and also demanding the NHS get equipment, fair pay, more investment, and more recognition by the MSM on a normal basis!
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