A doctor in Bangladesh has found a simple way to treat infant pneumonia

Re:A doctor in Bangladesh has found a simple way to treat in... by kragen on Monday September 10, 2018 @07:40PM (#17956054)

You say, "A ventilator has a far better success rate." I am skeptical of this statement; what are your sources? I would expect this setup to have the same success rate as any other bubble CPAP machine.

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Re:A doctor in Bangladesh has found a simple way to treat in... by omegabravo on Monday September 10, 2018 @10:59PM (#17956879)

it would be hard to cite source on a new device/discovery/method such as this as there would not be any.

The comment higher up the chain covered some of the potential failure methods of the new system.

> If you lose 10% to contaminated bottles, 15% to various malfunctions, and another 5% for things related to the procedure I can't even begin to consider, that's 30% mortality rate for this procedure.

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Re:A doctor in Bangladesh has found a simple way to treat in... by kragen on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @07:08PM (#17964225)

There's no reason to expect that those rates would be higher for this equipment design than for the $15000 one, rather than lower.

That comment also seems to demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding of what's being discussed, since contaminated bottles are vanishingly unlikely to infect the patient — the air goes from the patient to the bottle, through a dry plastic tube, not vice versa.

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Re:A doctor in Bangladesh has found a simple way to treat in... by bena on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @08:59AM (#17968115)

You do understand the numbers and examples were made up to illustrate a point, that even if it weren't as good as a modern hospital that it's better than the current alternative.

Discussing the minutiae is immaterial.

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