Interesting.
I thought that tooling up high volume plastic parts took months.
Great news.
Doesn’t shock me...anyone that owns a Dyson vacuum cleaner will tell you that it’s the best vacuum on the face of the Earth. This guy is a genius.
Based on my friends in the US Medical device manufacturing industry a “band new” medical device design required months of FDA testing/approval before it can be sold. The story is about sales to the UK, so that may be the difference.
Still, I think that there is some apples to oranges comparisons going on. Not saying that the regulatory agencies shouldn’t be shaken up, but still something seems off.
By the time a patient has to be pout on a ventilator, ITS TOO LATE:
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Cuomo: Only 15k? I need 100,000 of these suckers and I’m not paying a dime for them. Dyson is not stepping up!
Ventilators can be surprisingly simple. The old MA IIs had no “electronics” IIRC. Over the decades ventilators have become much more compact, mobile, all sorts of bells and whistles, safety measures to prevent barotrauma. They used to be incredibly simple, I changed vent settings on my patients in the ICU myself more frequently than the RTs did.
Today’s’ vent is highly complex, it can do things the old vents couldn’t do. We knew in our day it was theoretically posssible to ventilate a lung with a “jet” that caused laminar flow and NO “breaths”. Inhalation and exhalation occurring simultaneously through laminar flow. The old vents couldn’t do that. The new ones have all kinds of waveforms of pressure that can be delivered to address specific clinical situations. They can “trigger” only when certain parameters are met. They are extremely complex pieces of machinery.
Students at Rice developed a $300 ventilator.
I bet it uses a walnut sized motor and sounds like a 747 spooling up for take off.
Again, respirators might rarely be needed if they follow the treatment. It’s telling that they are focusing on ventilators
Any relation to Freeman Dyson...
