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Re:Ventilators 101: What they do and how they work by ryandrake on Friday March 27, 2020 @06:09PM (#22707369)
I'm not a manufacturing expert, but if came down to it and I was sick and only had the choice between "drowning alone as my lungs filled up with mucus" and "trying a ventilator that probably doesn't work and was built by an idiot using Home Depot parts and a Raspberry Pi" I'd still go with the idiot.

Sure, ideally we'd want the certified equipment, built by the professional knighted safety engineers, stamped by the right bureaucrat, with 1000 pages of documentation proving how thoroughly expert-approved they are, but when you run out of these, what do you do?

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Re:Ventilators 101: What they do and how they work by robomartin on Sunday March 29, 2020 @07:33PM (#22723736)
The problem with that idea is that the application of a ventilator is far more nuanced than inflating a car tire. A home-brew ventilator could kill you faster than the mucus (and likely in a horribly painful way, for example, causing your lungs to bleed internally).
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