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Health officials taking stock of hospital ventilators
Local, state and federal health officials will know this month precisely how many mechanical ventilators - machines that pump oxygen into ailing lungs - are at every hospital in case the swine flu becomes a moderate to severe outbreak.
Inventories of the machines are being counted at hospitals on Long Island and nationwide in a survey conducted by the American Association for Respiratory Care....
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