Remove barriers to fixing ventilators

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Remove barriers to fixing ventilators

U.S. Manufacturers

U.S. hospitals do not have enough ventilators to meet the spike in cases of respiratory failure that the novel coronavirus is projected to create.

As ventilators are pressed into round-the-clock use, repair and maintenance issues will increase. While some ventilator manufacturers provide the service information that biomedical technicians need, other manufacturers make it hard to access manuals, read error logs or run diagnostic tests. We need to remove those barriers now.

Join us in calling on manufacturers to release the vital service information hospitals need to service and maintain all viable ventilators in the United States.

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To: U.S. Manufacturers
From: [Your Name]

U.S. hospitals do not have enough ventilators to meet the spike in cases of respiratory failure that the novel coronavirus is projected to create.

It will become critical to remove barriers to repairing ventilators. Additionally, we may need to repair older reserve ventilators so they can be put into service.

I urge you to immediately release service information -- manuals, access to error logs and diagnostic information or other repair resources -- for hospital ventilators to help our hospitals combat the coronavirus.