Multi-drug resistance in bacteria has increased by 14 percent over the last seven years, and most of them are getting even more resistant to certain antibiotics, said a national AMR (antimicrobial resistance) surveillance report.
As the demand for oxygen increased at hospitals amid this second wave of the pandemic, a group of Buet researchers has developed a low-cost portable ventilator that can deliver oxygen to patients efficiently without electricity.
The non-invasive device, which requires a connection with an cylinder or medical oxygen supply, is designed to help severe coronavirus patients with low oxygen levels, according to the researchers.
Named OxyJet CPAP by the researchers from Buet s Department of Biomedical Engineering, it has already been field-tested and approved for clinical trials.
This device can be used in remote villages or ambulances wherever it is possible to carry cylinders as an alternative to the high-flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) support.
Second wave sees crisis over a certain drug Please help me to find Actemra 400mg injection (Tocilizumab) for my Covid patient mother. She is currently in ICU. Please help… read a recent appeal by Sazzad Hossain on a public Facebook group.
He desperately needed the medication, sold under the brand names Actemra and RoActemra, for his critically ill mother but he couldn t source it after visiting all the large drug stores in Dhaka. Then I came to know that this drug can be purchased only from certain distribution centres of the importer company. I rushed to the centre only to learn that their stock was already exhausted, Sazzad said.