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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan they make bigger ventilators?
Picture a large ventilator pump with lets say
the capacity of 10 ventilators with the possibility
for each branch to have pressure controls and
oxygen controls...
If they can split ventilators, why not build multi-ventilators?
It shouldnt be so hard to design.
It might even save some money and materials.
mucifer
(23,542 posts)Ventilator splitting has been approved in NYC :
New York-Presbyterian Hospital has developed a split-ventilation protocol that has been shared with the New York State Department of Health, which quickly approved the practice.
Calling the technique not ideal, but workable, Cuomo said ventilator splitting may be necessary given some projections that suggest the state may need as many as 30,000 ventilators in the coming weeks.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/york-approves-ventilator-splitting-allowing-hospitals-treat-patients/story?id=69816167
Here is why some experts think it's a bad idea : https://www.asahq.org/about-asa/newsroom/news-releases/2020/03/joint-statement-on-multiple-patients-per-ventilator
stopbush
(24,396 posts)already exist. By the time you design, test and approve a multi-patient unit you could have built a million ventilators using existing designs.
superpatriotman
(6,249 posts)We put a man on the moon for crying out loud
hunter
(38,311 posts)... if too many people who are qualified to set them up and monitor the patients attached to them get sick.
thecrow
(5,519 posts)have one machine per ventilator room.
The machine could have sensors to detect and supply each patients pressure needed and maintain proper oxygen levels.
It would be more like one giant unit with its ventilating parts separate from one another.
This would not be like splitting a ventilator!
One medical monitor could be isolated sort of like the booth that protects personnel
from x-rays so there wouldnt be so much worry about exposure.
Hey, my microwave can detect when the food is cooked and I have manual override.
Maybe this machine is down the road a ways, because out need is so great right now.
But this could be an efficient way for more people to have ventilation in the future.