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No. Consider that the purpose of a ventilator in a patient with compromised respiration is to support their breathing, not to fully take over for them. The two
by duskwuff 7y ago
No. Consider that the purpose of a ventilator in a patient with compromised respiration is to support their breathing, not to fully take over for them. The two patients wouldn't be breathing in synchrony, so a ventilator would end up providing pressure that prevented one or both patients from breathing normally, rather than supporting them.
- eloops 7y agoThat makes sense but I think that it's still more plausible to solve a sync problem than to double the amount of machines. If that's the case then maybe the sync can be controlled somehow? Maybe (just maybe as I'm over optimistic) we could reach a problem that a mechanical engineer could solve and could potentially save many lives.. Thanks for the answer!
- duskwuff 7y agoThis isn't a mechanical problem. It's a biological one -- you've got two people; one of them wants to breathe in, and the other wants to breathe out. A single ventilator can't support the respiration of the patient who's breathing in without making the other one choke.