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Good on them for trying to save human lives, but our legal system does not always reward the ethical behavior.
If some untested and unapproved method like this is used and something goes wrong, I would image that being a huge liability problem. Good on them for trying to save human lives, but our legal system does not always reward the ethical behavior.
Our laws are not a suicide pact and sometimes they must be broken.
"Risky hack" is not something I want to apply during a sanitary emergency
Is negative pressure ventilation any use in treating Covid-19? Iron lungs are easier to build than positive pressure ventilators. I imagine many HN readers could build something like a Both respirator[0] in their garage over a weekend. Using negative pressure ventilation might be a better option than trying to attach multiple patients to a positive pressure ventilator. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Both_respirato…
Is that what these are? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVodALR3Zoo
There are some odd quotes and grammatical mistakes in this article. For example: “You wouldn’t want to put a patient with severe bronchospasm [sudden contractions of bronchial muscles in the lungs] with a patient that does not have bronchospasm because that would.” Likewise, one of the cited authors’ names, Babcock, is misspelled in the piece as Babcok. I’m not qualified to assess whether this risk is worth it but I…
There are lots of problems with this, but I think it is possibly a better move than some of the home-built ventilators you see floating around. I’m biased though: I’ve designed a 3D printed improvement on this idea that potentially allows you to ventilate multiple patients with different pressures: https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/25808-3d-printed-circui...
Is negative pressure ventilation any use in treating Covid-19? Iron lungs are easier to build than positive pressure ventilators. I imagine many HN readers could build something like a Both respirator[0] in their garage over a weekend. Using negative pressure ventilation might be a better option than trying to attach multiple patients to a positive pressure ventilator. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Both_respirato…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Depends on whether you flatten out the growth rate. It won't/can't keep growing like that when everyone is sheltering in place.
Seems likely. Italy is currently seeing a 13% increase per day while the US is now very close to a 50% increase per day. There are news reports showing beaches and bars in the US are still fully packed. It probably relates the US culture of disregarding expert advice and doing the opposite to "own the scientists"
Hash tagging #coronavirus #wfh on a photo of a table full of food and 65" TV with Netflix makes it sound like a party.
There are some odd quotes and grammatical mistakes in this article. For example: “You wouldn’t want to put a patient with severe bronchospasm [sudden contractions of bronchial muscles in the lungs] with a patient that does not have bronchospasm because that would.” Likewise, one of the cited authors’ names, Babcock, is misspelled in the piece as Babcok. I’m not qualified to assess whether this risk is worth it but I…
It looks like they have since fixed the errors you mentioned, yet they still misspell the author’s name as “Babock.”
There are lots of problems with this, but I think it is possibly a better move than some of the home-built ventilators you see floating around. I’m biased though: I’ve designed a 3D printed improvement on this idea that potentially allows you to ventilate multiple patients with different pressures: https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/25808-3d-printed-circui...
Perhaps check this out as well; someone used a common valve from a hardware store to titrate pressures up and down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSVbwWANqRI&feature=youtu.be.
I've been thinking about how we might increase ventilation to one part of the circuit if the pCO2 drops too badly--any thoughts there?