Table 1.

Catalan Government initiatives.

•Companies were asked to urgently develop new devices to provide respiratory support.

•Home ventilation providers assembled home ventilators from their available supplies for hospital use. Patients not using their home CPAP devices had their devices redeployed to the hospitals for acute care.

•Companies were asked to provide oxygen to hotels that had been temporarily converted into convalescence hospitals and care units for mild patients.

•Veterinarians were asked to lend their ventilators, commonly old-fashioned, for human use, to be used for acutely ill patients.