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Re:Indian researchers create a Raspberry-Pi-based device to ... by GravitasFailure on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @07:08PM (#28532741)
> but a smaller guarantee is still better than none at all, innit?

Raspberry Pi comes with no guarantees at all and has well documented problems with flaky power and burning out SD cards. It works great for the hobbyist/learning system that it was designed for and might even be good enough for the blood testing system in the article, but active monitoring for intensive care? Just...no.

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Re:Indian researchers create a Raspberry-Pi-based device to ... by rscho on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @07:19PM (#28532855)
I'm no expert in this field and was genuinely asking, but if someone knows of better things then please go for it!
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Re:Indian researchers create a Raspberry-Pi-based device to ... by ezconnect on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @08:42PM (#28533583)
The raspberry pi will be a very capable CPU for a medical monitoring. The issue is the sensor and the power unit. Isolation is very important and the sensor reading needs to be correct.
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Re:Indian researchers create a Raspberry-Pi-based device to ... by GravitasFailure on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @08:17PM (#28533389)
It's certainly a fair question. I don't work in medical devices, but know people that have, and the problem for medical hardware has two steps: One, build something that won't kill the patient, and then step two is proving that you're correct about step one. Step two is the expensive bit.
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