[Dave W]

That’s hysterical!

[Kozak]

We’ve reached peak stupid on this topic.

[kidd]

Only drawback is that it requires someone to squeeze the bag

You mean assign a health care professional to a single person, from a pool of overworked people, who increase their risk of infection enormously by contacting a sick infected person?

That little drawback?

[Kozak]

The average incubated Covid paring spends 10 to 14 days on a ventilator. Some 28 days.

[Eleutheria5]

And this is what Andy Cuomo, son of Mario Faccim Cuomo is so bent out of shape about? I could probably make it with what’s in my grandson’s playpen.

[tired&retired]

One of the problems is that these type of ventilators do not maintain a constant air pressure, this causing the alveoli to collapse. This breaks down the alveoli cell wall and increases the fluid blocking O2 transfer.

A CPAP, or constant pressure device maintains the pressure and functions on a differential wave to provide respiration. This constant pressure stops the alveoli from collapsing on zero or negative pressure.

This is also why the probe position decreased the death rate by approximately 16%.

[AppyPappy]

We called them “bag masks”

[PIF]

You can use that one if you want, but the rest of us would refer this one:

[JustaTech]

That device is a ventilator in the same fleeting sense that an umbrella is a shelter.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

If this is the case, I might be able to use my blowdryer in the ‘cool’ setting if I need air, no?

[Elsie]

They get about $200 bucks each for them.

For some pieces of PLASTIC???

[norwaypinesavage]

"Only drawback is that it requires someone to squeeze the bag...…. "

A doctor at the University of Minnesota has already developed mechanical bag squeezer for you.

[MayflowerMadam]

Serious question: Is a ventilator the same as a respirator?

[COBOL2Java]

This is a "Ventilator"

Oh! I thought it was a breathalyzer!

[polymuser]

And this is a snowblower...

[Vermont Lt]

So for every patient you need someone squeezing the tube , all day for 20 days.

We better start making shovels.

[central_va]

Ventilator, circa 1932:

[SamAdams76]

This is a computer:

[calico_thompson]

Grad sudents at Rice University in Houston have developed a way to squeeze the bag automatically.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200327/Rice-University-and-Metric-Technologies-develop-ventilator-costing-less-than-24300.aspx

[discostu]

No.