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Re:Open-source “pandemic ventilator” by sowbug on Saturday February 29, 2020 @11:05PM (#22455052)
Not asking about DIY, but since you are more knowledgeable about medicine than I, you might know. Dialysis exists. Could a variant of a dialysis machine oxygenate blood and scrub it of carbon dioxide to treat an ARDS patient? Is the main problem that dialysis can't move a high enough volume of blood to keep a person alive?
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Re:Open-source “pandemic ventilator” by dillondoyle on Sunday March 01, 2020 @12:34AM (#22455304)
Isn't that basically what ECMO is? like a super intense way to do all the things we need to live via our blood outside the body
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Re:Open-source “pandemic ventilator” by iancmceachern on Sunday March 01, 2020 @02:47AM (#22455715)
Yes, it's also what a "heart lung machine" is. They even use oxygenators that are very similar in construction to dialyzers used in dialysis.
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Re:Open-source “pandemic ventilator” by DoreenMichele on Sunday March 01, 2020 @02:50AM (#22455721)
https://www.rtmagazine.com/disorders-diseases/chronic-pulmon...
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