[DUMBGRUNT]

order to run for days, since just a two-week period could require more than one million cycles of the machine.

2 weeks = 14 days = 336 hrs = 20,160 min = 1,209,600 sec.
Breathing cycles? A lot of short breaths? Perhaps the cost estimates are also a bit off?

[TexasGator]

“2 weeks = 14 days = 336 hrs = 20,160 min = 1,209,600 sec.
Breathing cycles? A lot of short breaths? Perhaps the cost estimates are also a bit off? “

Perhaps you slept through that portion of your class on ventilator design?