Posted on 03/28/2020 10:08:15 PM PDT by Species8472
This is a "ventilator. They get about $200 bucks each for them. There are millions of these in hospitals, ambulances and clinics. Only drawback is that it requires someone to squeeze the bag...….
I was looking up on if it was possible to build a homemade mechanical ventilator. You can - but it is beyond me.
But I did come across some family in China (a few years ago) that had been using a hand operated one like this for something like 2 months(?) or was it years to keep their young son alive! Everybody in the family taking turns.
The article was about how somebody finally donated them a real ventilator.
I’ll take the green and gray one.
Hope the step ladder comes with it.
My asthma isn’t as bad as it used to be, but on the very rare occasion I need to use a nebulizer, I have jitters after using it. Then again that’s with a steroid as a medicine.
A ventilator is a very simple device.
An automated ventilator is only moderately complex...it needs great instrumentation though and several fail-safe systems to make it safe.
The single greatest cost of a ventilator is $$$ to cover the legal liability.
We need healthcare tort reform!
To sue and receive monetary damages beyond a set amount a jury should have to be unanimous instead of the way civil litigation is set up currently...this could halve the cost of many medical devices.
And who is going to squeeze it 24 hours a day?
Thank goodness my name is Manuel...
The poste gets 3.7 more vanities because the information in this one is so important.
Did he really have to pay a nickel?
I Wooden know...
That’s hysterical!
We’ve reached peak stupid on this topic.
You mean assign a health care professional to a single person, from a pool of overworked people, who increase their risk of infection enormously by contacting a sick infected person?
That little drawback?
The average incubated Covid paring spends 10 to 14 days on a ventilator. Some 28 days.
Really stupid if they think they can manually do that 24 hours a day for 3 weeks.
For 24 hours a day for 3 weeks? And what happens if the housekeeper gets sick,
Reusable.
This is the company that is in joint venture with GM, that Trump criticized.
I just bought one of those Mustangs in January. Same color, shadow black. I love it.
I bet not. This isn't ladders that sell for cheap and are litigated like crazy.
Ventilators are a small volume product with quite a bit of engineering and approval cost that has to be spread across that small volume.
it is against federal regulation to sell a ventilator without a doctors prescription. They are not generally available to the general public.
And this is what Andy Cuomo, son of Mario Faccim Cuomo is so bent out of shape about? I could probably make it with what’s in my grandson’s playpen.
...and half of the patients she “ventilates” will need chest tubes. I’ve seen patients drop a lung over a trip to the CT scan. In fact, when you “:manage an ICU” you had best be looking for it when they desaturate afterwards.
You guys do have imagination and creativity, though.
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