Ventilator (2023 Update)

Source please.

Without that such (pretty vague and meaningless) statements are no more than dangerous fake news.

You wouldn't want to spread fake news, would you?

As i said in another thread, using tube with ventilator (or just pump) is a dangerous precedence for both patient and medical staff. So, when the sys tem is overloaded, the medical staff can't do it properly. Using just face respirator won't help when the patient's lung is full of fluid.

You don't get the ventilator until you need it. And by then, you have major organ damage elsewhere, not just lungs full of fluid and fibrosis.

This article depicts the typical progression:

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Cursitor Doom doesn't spread anything else.

If that were typical, everyone on the Diamond Princess would've died.

To the thread topic, I read that in the last SARS outbreak China gifted us (2003), it was learned that CPAP machines will do in a pinch.

Cheers, James Arthur

That's hopeful, iff the damage to the lungs is similar.

One interesting technique is, reportedly, to have four people connected to one ventilator. They need to have the same (nominal!) lung volume and the pipes need to be the same length. Patients are arranged in a star with the ventilator in the middle.

While that's plausible, I would like to see a decent source for the concept.

By comparing expelled gasses, or by testing blood with a clip-on optical sensor or something?

But maybe it could be a mask, and maybe those CPAP things that seem to be cheap and common could do some good.

Finger sensor.

Cheers, James Arthur

Can't really help but MIT supposedly has something for $100. They started on it ten years ago.