Re:Open-source “pandemic ventilator”
by prostheticvamp on Saturday February 29, 2020 @09:09PM
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> It is highly unlikely that anyone will build this and attempt to treat a patient at home without reading anything.
I’m not going to pretend that 0% of the human population could manage a ventilated patient with nothing but the appropriate texts, but it’s pretty damn close to 0%. Hell, a fresh third year med student would almost certainly kill a patient in that situation, and they’re at least supposed to understand the relevant physiology and drugs.
The vent is a tool for adjusting a couple of physiologic parameters, in the context of what is usually severe and complicated disease. It doesn’t manage anything by itself, and it’s not a RTFM situation.
I’m not going to pretend that 0% of the human population could manage a ventilated patient with nothing but the appropriate texts, but it’s pretty damn close to 0%. Hell, a fresh third year med student would almost certainly kill a patient in that situation, and they’re at least supposed to understand the relevant physiology and drugs.
The vent is a tool for adjusting a couple of physiologic parameters, in the context of what is usually severe and complicated disease. It doesn’t manage anything by itself, and it’s not a RTFM situation.