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This might be one of those scenerios similar to what's currently happening with PPE - where we just have to use uncertified equipment because we have nothing th
by penagwin 7y ago
This might be one of those scenerios similar to what's currently happening with PPE - where we just have to use uncertified equipment because we have nothing that is certified left.
Like many others have pointed out, if the option is this uncertified machine or certain death - which would you choose?
Actual proper testing and certification would likely take years - and we need them within the next few weeks.
- viklove 7y agoWho pays the liability when the ventilator backs up and blows the patient's lung apart?
- penagwin 7y agoIf you're the patient, and the doctor says "I'm sorry but we have no more ventilators. You can elect to choose this experimental device and sign away liability as a last resort. Otherwise you are going to almost certainly die." How would you respond? If anything I'd be appalled if I was the patient, and was basically just left to die because of all the certification red tape.
- gruez 7y ago>If anything I'd be appalled if I was the patient, and was basically just left to die because of all the certification red tape. AFAIK that's what already happens now with highly experimental drugs. You can't just give terminal patients whatever you want with the excuse "they were going to die anyways".