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  • Canadian Doctor Rigs Ventilator to Treat Nine Patients Instead of Just One

    https://interestingengineering.com/canadian-doctor-rigs-ventilator-to-treat-nine-patients-instead-of-just-one

  • Not good for Puritan Bennett.

  • Bennett?

    So nine hoses on one machine... why not 12? or 15?

    Cross contamination... differing lung capacities... differing lung elasticities... differing degrees of lungs being compromised by pneumonia...

    Probably the reason the innovator himself said...

    "At one point we may not have other options," Gauthier told CBC News. "The option could be well, we let people die or we give that a chance."

    In other words the modification is in the same category as drug trails on the critically ill.

  • Bennett?

    So nine hoses on one machine... why not 12? or 15?

    Cross contamination... differing lung capacities... differing lung elasticities... differing degrees of lungs being compromised by pneumonia...

    Probably the reason the innovator himself said...

    "At one point we may not have other options," Gauthier told CBC News. "The option could be well, we let people die or we give that a chance."

    In other words the modification is in the same category as drug trails on the critically ill.

    @tour2ma said:

    Bennett?

    So nine hoses on one machine... why not 12? or 15?

    Cross contamination... differing lung capacities... differing lung elasticities... differing degrees of lungs being compromised by pneumonia...

    Probably the reason the innovator himself said...

    In other words the modification is in the same category as drug trails on the critically ill.

    I am really frugal. I was thinking about one deluxe ventilator and just running hoses everywhere...?

    Expanding the capacity of one ventilator though is something I think to consider in an emergency where there are no other good options,