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Re:'Pandemic ventilator' could offer solution in potential '... by tcbawo on Saturday March 21, 2020 @10:16PM (#22652129)
Yes. Without proper cleaning, it is a highway for infection. You also need to maintain a balance of blood oxygen and carbon dioxide. Many of these people require supplemental oxygen. So, you have to control respiration rate and oxygen mix. This would be a very bad to try yourself.
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Re:'Pandemic ventilator' could offer solution in potential '... by monadic2 on Saturday March 21, 2020 @10:37PM (#22652227)
Intubation also reduces risk of of the patient infecting others.
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Re:'Pandemic ventilator' could offer solution in potential '... by rtkwe on Saturday March 21, 2020 @11:12PM (#22652374)
One of the other big issues hitting during this crisis beyond simple availability of ventilation machines is the number of nurses and doctors available to monitor and care for patients when they have to go to the ICU. Ideally the machine would be both cheap and easy to produce and require less qualified monitoring.

If we get way more machines but those machines require a lot of intensive monitoring we could wind up with plenty of machines but not making any progress on the fatality rate.

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Re:'Pandemic ventilator' could offer solution in potential '... by catblast on Saturday March 21, 2020 @11:05PM (#22652346)
Harder to infect others if you’re dead.
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Re:'Pandemic ventilator' could offer solution in potential '... by mirimir on Sunday March 22, 2020 @01:44AM (#22653012)
Unless you plan ahead ;)
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