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Medical Ventilator Design
ali_asadzadeh:
If there is money,I can contribute to this! I have a design team, that can cover many things reading, part sourcing and buying from china, designing with ARM and FPGA, High speed PCB design,prototype and mass production in china! also the PC,web UI design and DSP if needed. ^-^
nardev:
Mercedes and other Formula 1 teams have some solution that can help. Without pumps and with 1000 devices or day manufacturing capabilities.
https://youtu.be/v34M0dIokLw
nardev:
https://youtu.be/72kfIi_ZyPk
So Mercedes and Dyson did something
https://youtu.be/kLsyUg-ldSk
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: ali_asadzadeh on March 31, 2020, 12:52:47 pm ---If there is money,I can contribute to this!
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;D
profdc9:
--- Quote from: nardev on March 31, 2020, 12:31:50 pm ---I wouldn't like to be misunderstood nor do i want you to think that i'm just opposing your opinion because i like being hater.
However, i would like to point out few things that i thing are the problems which you don't see in this situation.
(p.s. i lived through the last war in Balkans for 3.5-4 years. I remember pretty well how things were functioning. In my place we had about 35-40k people in a very narrow place, between an Airport and a hill and that place was completely surrounded from all sides except for one road which was open for fire but was not blocked physically and could take you over the hill and to another part of the city. The hospital was in the basement of the building where i lived and i remember very clearly killed and wounded people and i also remember clearly in what conditions those doctors were doing their job as i was also a patient there at one point!)
1. I take the assumption that this is really "emergency state". I don't want to discuss if it is or not.
2. Lack of patience in American people is a huge problem
3. Lack of basic life skills like cooking, proper cleaning, filtering water etc. I have many friends that moved in USA and i visited some of them in past period, very common discussion was how an average American have no clue about basic life skills. (i'm talking an average! not all!)
4. Due to insane expenses in your medical care, the values of proper care for big masses is impossible.
5. As the doctors are perceived to be "rich and smart", living very comfortable and sometimes even luxurious life in USA, maybe some of them would not be as available for service as emergency situation expects people to be. We have seen such thing happening in my city, some of the doctors were leaving as soon as they got a chance.
6. As i said in 4. The expenses are problem but in this situation it will completely destroy financial situation of an average people. So far we know that it takes about 3 weeks to recover, in a lot of cases it required most of that time to have the patient hospitalize, having in mind that an average day in a hospital in USA is about 3-4k, + additional services that would definitely be required in this situation, some of infected could be charged maybe even 100k for the service, especially when you have situation that insurance can simply cancel your contract and let you pay 100% of your expenses.
7. In USA you have very long history of "investors" that later on dictate the prices of the products. Sometimes the investors are great thing but sometimes you just have very immoral people so you get this:
Drug Goes From $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight: [url]https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/a-huge-overnight-increase-in-a-drugs-price-raises-protests.html[/url]
8. You have decades of scientific explorations and researches. Chasing references, papers to be published and chasing money for another research JUST FOR THE SAKE OF MONEY AND POPULARITY WITHOUT ANY REALLY CONCERNS ABOUT WHAT AND WHY THEY WORK ON . That immoral and unethical approach to life and work brought you to this situation. That is why they charge you 400USD in NYC for COVID19 test instead to do it for 40$. As there is nothing which makes the 6.5$ costing test with import taxes to cost 400$!
I stay behind the prices that i mentioned as i have insight in prices in this situation.
9. Using legal system in this situation to pressure your doctors maybe can make even more dead people as they would not maybe try some alternative help..
Remember, it if is emergency, there is no place for accusations and this is not engineering job, you can't evaluate and measure everything nor you can establish 100% correct procedures that would always be successful.
IMHO those are bigger problems for USA than wrong usage of ventilators.
I remember nurses staying up hole night next to a patient, pumping in an air, stopping blood, doing some of the many smaller surgeries as sometimes, after the shelling of my place, there were 30+ people in a small hospital and only two experienced surgeons that took more serious wounds and were only overlooking some of nurses helping some other patients with light wounds. That is really emergency state and when rules change.
Wish you all to stay healthy and to be safe.
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You'll get no argument from me that the American health care system is rapacious and inefficient.
Even in a well-functioning, properly incentivized health care system, emergency preparedness can be a problem. There was an attempt to create a reserve of ventilators, however, the company with the contract to produce the ventilators was bought by a major medical conglomerate which had no interest in providing a low cost, emergency device. If you demonstrate that the function of a device can be performed at a lower cost, then that puts pressure on the prices of the entire market for ventilators. As the market has significantly consolidated there is little competition left.
Anyways, we now are reaping the consequences, and the true tragedy is that it may be only tragedy that can galvanize any change to this situation.
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