I tried to find out the name of the manufacturer of the low-flow oxygen delivery approach recommended by WHO, but couldn't. Anybody else able to figure it out?
How a shampoo bottle is saving young lives
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#32Honestly the amount of screen space the economist takes away is ridicolous. https://imgur.com/a/U0ClW65 (Yes I have an adblocker installed)
Not to mention these "please subscribe" and "you have no free articles left" popovers and alerts. Whats even worse is that Google News now includes paywalled publications with these spammy dark patterns. I don't mind paying for Quanta or Nautilus and other high quality publications. But sorry [Generic Copypasta News.] Most of the time all you do is copy the PR off Associated Press - I am not going to pay for freely a…
This is The Economist. I doubt they use any AP material. They also get nearly all their revenue from subscriptionz, not ads.
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#34>>The hospital now deploys it routinely and the number of children who die there from pneumonia has fallen by three-quarters. That means the survival rate in the Dhaka Hospital is today almost on a par with that of children treated in rich-world facilities, using conventional ventilators. Innovation like this is facilitated by the lack of medical device regulations in Bangladesh.
I don’t think you deserve to be downvoted for this. A $5 hack is not really possible in the west, and that is definitely a thing worth thinking about. You might not get stopped from doing it if it was immediately obvious that it was effective but eventually hundreds of thousands if not millions would be spent on studies or approvals before a “proper” device made its way into the supply chain at 10000x markup over inj…
Also, is it really worth it to a doctor in the US? Even if I _know_ for a fact that it would work 100% absolutely the same as the multi-million dollar device, that's not the accepted procedure. I could still do it and save thousands of lives, but as soon as _anything_ goes wrong there's going to be a lawsuit and the fact that I used this crappy looking $5 thing is going to be a huge part of it, even if it had absolutely nothing to do with the death.
Even if your motives were good, you were arguably doing what is best for society, and the device had nothing at all to do with the situation your career is over... Who in their right mind is ever going to do that?
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#35It's not clear to me if he invented a new device, or simply built a 2$ home made version of a 6000$ standard bubble-CPAP.
In other word, is this a story about ingenuity saving lives, or about regulation and industry profiting on medical devices killing lives?
(Note that I'm not saying that we necessarily have too much regulation or that medical industry profits too much; I'm just saying that in this specific case they would be failing to save people, while overall they could still be optimal)
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#36Outlined: https://outline.com/Yb8sLG
Thanks for this.
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#37Blessed be this man and his inspiration that is now saving many lives. Seeing that little child entubed like that is so heartbreaking. I wonder why he can make a device with a plastic bottle and a similar device costs thousands of dollars more.
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#38The Economist article is paywalled for me, but BBC news has a piece at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40498395 that describes the shampoo bottle hack.
You can use a private window too.
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#39I tried to find out the name of the manufacturer of the low-flow oxygen delivery approach recommended by WHO, but couldn't. Anybody else able to figure it out?
There is no manufacturer because there is no equipment needed for low flow oxygen, beyond an oxygen supply (from gas bottle) and a tube with two nozzles that go into the patient's nostrils.
That's why WHO recommends it to hospitals who can't afford anything else.
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#40Looking this up led me to Open Pediatrics, a lovely idea: https://www.openpediatrics.org A video going into more of the detail, on reflection the big idea seems to be the air pressure oscillations https://youtube.com/watch?v=rjmdNspYoy4
Tangential, Openpediatrics seems like a great initiative, are there any other such resources for other medical fields?
There is the FOAM movement (Free and open acces meducation - https://lifeinthefastlane.com/foam/) but I bet there's many more out there.
It feels like there is some foundation for medicine to evolve like software evolved, where there is more and more open source knowledge to build upon, democratizing and lowering the cost of access to that knowledge.