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it would be hard to cite source on a new device/discovery/method such as this as there would not be any. The comment higher up the chain covered some of the po
by omegabravo 8y ago
it would be hard to cite source on a new device/discovery/method such as this as there would not be any.
The comment higher up the chain covered some of the potential failure methods of the new system.
> If you lose 10% to contaminated bottles, 15% to various malfunctions, and another 5% for things related to the procedure I can't even begin to consider, that's 30% mortality rate for this procedure.
- kragen 8y agoThere's no reason to expect that those rates would be higher for this equipment design than for the $15000 one, rather than lower. That comment also seems to demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding of what's being discussed, since contaminated bottles are vanishingly unlikely to infect the patient — the air goes from the patient to the bottle, through a dry plastic tube, not vice versa.
- bena 8y agoYou do understand the numbers and examples were made up to illustrate a point, that even if it weren't as good as a modern hospital that it's better than the current alternative. Discussing the minutiae is immaterial.