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Reinvent the ventilator and have one sitting in a hospital in 14 days with no teething issues on production, training, deployment, maintenance?
by flatiron 7y ago
Reinvent the ventilator and have one sitting in a hospital in 14 days with no teething issues on production, training, deployment, maintenance?
- Cerium 7y agoExactly. Anyone who has worked in medical devices knows this is impossible. Saying that you will prepare one as part of a timely response is such nonsense that I don't know what part to start looking at.
- ineedasername 7y agoIt only would make sense if we're still facing these issues in, say, 8 months. Which is still wildly optimistic for proper design etc of such a device, and even if possible that same time frame should absolutely allow existing manufacturers to scale production.
- wbl 7y agoThe original ventilator was very janky. It did work!
- arcticbull 7y agoFor polio. That's a very different problem.
- wbl 7y agoThe positive pressure ones anesticists developed were also really janky. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(56)90597-9/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...