Just to highlight it more. Alarms are critical, if you don't know that everything is working PERFECTLY then you don't know if one of your 20 patients is dying

Just to highlight it more. Alarms are critical, if you don't know that everything is working PERFECTLY then you don't know if one of your 20 patients is dying because of a failing $400 machine. Also so is lifespam. It would suck to get all these ventilators that break down in a few days. I've seen medical machine designs, and they have to check by the second that everything is working, and redundant systems so that if one system thinks all is well and the other doesn't big alarms start going on. And redundancy so that if part of the machine is failing the patient is kept alive while another machine is gathered. The quality is just as important as the function.