Tech Ping
This was stated and done at the beginning. BiPap machines are in fact low pressure ventilators, with the ability to ramp up pressure to ventilator status. There are no BiPap machines available for sale right now.
This is a very innovative and inexpensive way to make them.
See, if weren’t for us who snore, this technology probably wouldn’t currently exist.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
And when hooked to the Internet, there’s an “OFF” switch in Peking.
“Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, we are woefully short of ventilators “
Uh, no we are not.
His Most High Guv-nuh Koomo just gave away a bunch cause he didn’t need em. There is NO shortage anywhere in the US.
AND
50,000 are being built as bust work cuz the phony demand/ramp up to build came in to late.
The problem with this article is that it does not mention the addition of oxygen into the breathing air. This cannot be done safely with a CPAP machine, regardless of the software that is used. it requires a supply of large volumes of oxygen and a way of safely mixing it with the breathing air. Note that the conversion of the US hospital ship in NY and the conversion of the convention center in NY into “COVIS care” both required the supply and piping of centrally supplied oxygen to all beds.
This is not to say that CPAP aided breathing might not be helpful, but a “ventilator” it is NOT.
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Yes, except we don’t need ventilators anymore, we built some more, and now nobody is using all the ones we have, so we are selling them to Mexico.