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> 1-to-N - one ventilator can serve a hundred or more intubated patients - again a massive boon to scalability and dovetails nicely with the armies approach to
by Yoric 7y ago
> 1-to-N - one ventilator can serve a hundred or more intubated patients - again a massive boon to scalability and dovetails nicely with the armies approach to retrofit empty hotel rooms with negative pressure kit.
That's... scary. I seem to remember that each ventilator needs to be tuned to a patient's pulmonary capacity. Otherwise, you risk either not providing enough air or exploding the lungs.
- naasking 7y agoCouldn't that be handled my modifying the oxygen mixture per patient? My concern would be contamination between patients on the same system. People are ventilators are typically immune compromised. The positive pressure helps avoid this, but I'm not sure it's enough pressure.