DIY AUTOMATIC Rescue Breathing Masks

PROBLEM: There are not enough mechanical ventilators for everyone with shortness of breath from #COVID-19 who will need them. SOLUTION: This video shows you how to make and use AUTOMATIC RESCUE BREATHING MASKS that boost breathing by triggering a reflex to breathe more deeply. They have no moving parts, do not need power or extra oxygen, and take just seconds to make. MATERIALS NEEDED: 2 hands and a clean T-shirt; OR a paper cup; OR a mask designed for CPR, anesthesia or manual rescue rebreathing, also called a bag-valve mask SPONSOR: Donnay Detoxicology LLC, https://www.DonnayDetox.com PRESENTER: Albert Donnay, MS, MHS, is a consulting toxicologist, environmental health engineer, and patented inventor with degrees from McGill, the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and the University of Maryland. He specializes in carbon monoxide (CO) related disorders, which may be caused either by inhaled CO or CO produced naturally from the breakdown of heme proteins, which increases several-fold in response to stressors of all kinds, including viral infections, pneumonia and sepsis. HISTORY: Doctors have been using various methods to deliver carbon dioxide mixed with air or oxygen to boost breathing since 1922. But the latest device approved by US FDA to do this in 2019 costs $15,000 and can only be used in hospital ERs. Many simpler and less expensive alternatives have been patented, but few were commercialized. FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE: Donnay filed a US patent application for a variety of other Rebreathing Devices not shown in this PSA that was published in 2017, see https://patents.google.com/patent/US2.... But he abandoned this application in September 2019 and as a public service is now freely disclosing his latest DIY mask designs and methods in the hope that they may save lives in the absence of ventilators. REFERENCES: For peer-reviewed studies from PubMed on the benefits of rebreathing, see http://www.tinyurl.com/rebreathing For a poster presented at meeting of NY Academy of Sciences with the results of a study done in 2016 at the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center on Donnay's modified CPR mask design, which found the addition of a 6" tube boosted breathing by 40% within 10 minutes, see http://www.osf.io/R748F (corrects earlier typo) DISCLAIMER (from the PSA): 1. Any use you make of this information is at your own risk. 2. It was written by a TOXICOLOGIST for educational purposes only. 3. It is NOT intended as a substitute for the medical advice of a PHYSICIAN. 4. If you are having a medical emergency in North America, call 911. (outside North America, call 112) NEXT PSA IN THIS SERIES: No access to nasal swab test? DIY Test for COVID-19