Video: Avian Flu: Innovation in Healthcare

11 Sept 12
I have found a few good videos on pandemic planning and ventilators and will be posting these for much of the summer. If you are new to this blog, take a look at the right side of the page to see links to previous articles and the archives.

Avian Flu: Innovation in Healthcare
7:19
IBM
IBM collaborated with the Scripps Research Institute and several worldwide government and nonprofit health organizations to help work on developing a vaccine for avian flu by developing tools to assist in predicting the mutations the virus might take and develop vaccines targeted towards those mutations.
The last statement made in the video is very powerful.

Video: On Avian Flu

I have found a few good videos on pandemic planning and ventilators and will be posting these for much of the summer. If you are new to this blog, take a look at the right side of the page to see links to previous articles and the archives.

On Avian Flu, Part 1: Is a Pandemic Coming?
8:44
Urgelt
March 21, 2007
Expert virologists estimated that there is a 15% chance of an avian flu pandemic erupting in the next several years, and that the mortality of such a pandemic could be very high.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcTotoQNUFY

On Avian Flu, Part 2: Vaccines
5:30
Urgelt
March 23, 2007
The flu vaccine industry will probably take many years to provide full protection against any human transmissible strains that may emerge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbDift3llvI

On Avian Flu, Part 3: Protective Measures
9:31
Urgelt
March 25, 2007
Some suggestions for protecting yourself against the threat of an avian flu pandemic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-ovLJu6kss

Video: California Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Summit

I have found a few good videos on pandemic planning and ventilators and will be posting these for much of the summer. If you are new to this blog, take a look at the right side of the page to see links to previous articles and the archives.

California Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Summit Part 1
University of California Television
March 30, 2006
58:24
This program introduces the need for proactive Pandemic Influenza Preparedness, and highlights the state and federal governments' activities to help protect Californians. The program calls upon citizens to become active partners in the control of a flu pandemic or other infectious disease outbreak. Speakers include Sandra Shewry, Director of CA DHS, Kim Belshe, CA Secretary of HHS, L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Michael Leavitt and CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger..

Video: Davos 07: Pandemics

I have found a few good videos on pandemic planning and ventilators and will be posting these for much of the summer. If you are new to this blog, take a look at the right side of the page to see links to previous articles and the archives.

Davos07: Pandemics (1/2) monitoring risk
22:42
Pandemics: Monitoring a Risk in Hibernation. After a period of heightened concern, the fear of a new global influenza pandemic has receded from media attention. Yet the risk remains basically unchanged and beyond influenza.



Davos07: Pandemics (2/2) monitoring risk
15:44
Pandemics: Monitoring a Risk in Hibernation. Conclusion of the discussion on the threat of a pandemic at the World Economic Forum in Davos

Video: Emerging Infections: How Epidemics Arise

7 August 15
I have found a few good videos on pandemic planning and ventilators and will be posting these for much of the summer. If you are new to this blog, take a look at the right side of the page to see links to previous articles and the archives.

Emerging Infections: How Epidemics Arise
Research Channel and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
1999 Holiday Lectures on Science
Confronting the Microbe Menace Series
57:54
Tackling the complex causes of epidemics, Dr. Donald Ganem explains how mutations in genes and changes in the environment and human social behavior can give rise to new infectious diseases. He cites the influenza virus as an example of genetic changes that have led to epidemics and pandemics. He also shows the impact of weather on a 1993 outbreak of Hanta virus, describes the effect of human migration on the spread of smallpox, and examines what happened when the myxoma virus was introduced in Australia in the 1950s to control the rabbit population.

Video: Avian Flu

I have found a few good videos on pandemic planning and ventilators and will be posting these for much of the summer. If you are new to this blog, take a look at the right side of the page to see links to previous articles and the archives.

Avian Flu (1): The H5N1 virus
Vetstoria.com
6:49
A veterinarian explains what the H5N1 avian flu virus is all about.




Avian Flu (2): Threat of a pandemic
Vetstoria.com
7:53
A veterinarian explains how the H5N1 avian flu virus may become very contagious and deadly to people.

Video: Protecting the Healthcare Workforce in Pandemic Influenza

I have found a few good videos on pandemic planning and ventilators and will be posting these for much of the summer. If you are new to this blog, take a look at the right side of the page to see links to previous articles and the archives.

Protecting the Healthcare Workforce in Pandemic Influenza; “Just in Case Curriculum
California Department of Public Health Emergency Preparedness and The center for Infectious Disease Preparedness US Berkley School of Public Health
59:31
How healthcare workers can take care of themselves and their families in a pandemic situation.

Video: Influenza Pandemics: Past and Future

I have found a few good videos on pandemic planning and ventilators and will be posting these for much of the summer. If you are new to this blog, take a look at the right side of the page to see links to previous articles and the archives.

Influenza Pandemics: Past and Future
Research Channel and The Office of Research and Graduate Studies; University of Michigan Medical School
Third Annual Biomedical Research Symposium; Global Infectious Disease
45:14
Oct 17, 2006

Discussion of the Influenxa Virus, past pandemics including 1918 and how what we have learned can be applied to future pandemics.

Video: Interview of John M Barry author of The Great Influenza

I have found a few good videos on pandemic planning and ventilators and will be posting these for much of the summer. If you are new to this blog, take a look at the right side of the page to see links to previous articles and the archives.

Interview of John M Barry author of The Great Influenza
KEXL
54:50
February 9, 2005
Interview with John M. Barry author of "The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History".

Video: Standing in the Safety Zone

I have found a few good videos on pandemic planning and ventilators and will be posting these for much of the summer. If you are new to this blog, take a look at the right side of the page to see links to previous articles and the archives.

Video Link Here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNP9KwFMU6Y

Standing in the Safety Zone
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
25:23
Remembering the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic and how lessons can be applied to modern flu pandemics
The 1918 pandemic from the perspective of African Americans in Baltimore.

Video: Larry Brilliant: TED Prize wish: Help stop the next pandemic

I have found a few good videos on pandemic planning and ventilators and will be posting these for much of the summer. If you are new to this blog, take a look at the right side of the page to see links to previous articles and the archives.

Video link Here - http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/58

Larry Brilliant: TED Prize wish: Help stop the next pandemic
26:02
Larry Brilliant
Feb 2006
Accepting the 2006 TED Prize, Dr. Larry Brilliant talks about how smallpox was eradicated from the planet, and calls for a new global system that can identify and contain pandemics before they spread.

Building a Pandemic Ventilator

On Thursday May 29, Jeff and I gave a presentation about the Pandemic Ventilator Project to some of my friends and colleagues at work. The presentation went smoothly and was well received. We received encouragement from the attendees to continue working on the project. We had the presentation videotaped so that more people could see it. Thank you Manuel for your help and ideas in videotaping this presentation.

The presentation is about 35 minutes in length overall and is divided into 4 sections below as YouTube videos. The title of the presentation was "Building a Pandemic Ventilator”. It is an overview of what we are tying to achieve with the Pandemic Ventilator Project.



Building a Pandemic Ventilator Part 1
9:08
Presented at Grand River Hospital May 29 2008.
The purpose and origins of the Pandemic Ventilator Project and the history of home made ventilators.




Building a Pandemic Ventilator Part 2
6:42
Presented at Grand River Hospital May 29 2008.
A description of how the Pandemic Ventilator actually works.




Building a Pandemic Ventilator Part 3
9:16
Presented at Grand River Hospital May 29 2008.
Some pandemic planning ideas and the future of the Pandemic Ventilator Project.




Building a Pandemic Ventilator Part 4
9:52
Some discussion, questions and a demonstration of Jeff’s Pandemic Ventilator.