PHOTO: Marc Sherwin, M.D. – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York

Inside The Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Simulation HELPS Center, Anjan Shah, M.D., left, and Garrett Burnett, M.D., right, test split ventilation in simulator models before successfully ventilating two patients in the COVID ICU using a device developed with 3D printed and locally bought parts. During the surge of new cases of COVID-19 patients being admitted to the hospital and an impending shortage of ventilators, these innovative techniques were developed to be used as a last resort.